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Table 1 Included and excluded patients

From: Emergent laparoscopy in treatment of perforated peptic ulcer: a local experience from a tertiary centre in Saudi Arabia

Total patients’ number

Patients included in the study

Patients excluded of the study

53

47

Total = 6

  

Previous upper abdominal operations’ scars = 3

  

evidence of gastric outlet obstruction = 1

  

Concomitant ulcer bleeding = 2