Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Outcomes of Hirschsprung’s Disease from the Perspective of Gender

Table 4

First-year postoperative and operative data, median (range), : number. A total of 13 boys and 5 girls were admitted for emergency visits and a total of 20 boys and 2 girls were readmitted during the first year post-TERPT. The median value and the range are presented for the whole cohort, that is, both those who had emergency visits/or who were readmitted and those who were not.

	Boys ()	Girls ()	value
Length of resected bowel (cm)	18 (10–114)	16 (13–27)
Total number of follow-ups	8 (1–38)	7 (4–19)
Planned visits	7 (1–21)	7 (4–14)
Emergency visits	0 (0–11)	0 (0–5)
Hospitalization	1 (0–6)	0 (0–4)
Calibration	6 (1–26)	6 (1–13)
Examinations in aesthesia	9 (23%)	2 (17%)
Dilatation	0 (0–9)	0 (0–4)
Anorectal complication	24 (67%)	5 (41%)
Anal skin irritation/excoriation/wounds	16 (45%)	5 (41%)

–Whitney test significant at .
exact test significant at .