Critically ill patients with acute cholecystitis are at increased risk for extensive gallbladder inflammation

Table 2 Perioperative data

Features	Study group	Control group	p-value
Median gallbladder wall thickness	6.0	5.0	0.26
Interquartile range	11.0	4.0	0.26
WBC/ul	12.6	10.8	0.50
Interquartile range	8.5	6.8	0.50
CRP	10.5	3.7	0.14
Interquartile range (mg/dl)	20.5	12.9	0.14
Median time to surgery	24.0	24.0	0.10
Interquartile range (h)	60.0	42.0	0.10
Median duration of surgery	98.0	87.0	0.28
Interquartile range (min)	63.0	58.0	0.28
Conversion to open surgery	3/66 (4.5 %)	11/150 (7.3 %)	0.43

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