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Table 5 Leak rates following handsewn or stapled anastomosis in trauma patients

From: WSES guidelines on blunt and penetrating bowel injury: diagnosis, investigations, and treatment

Study

Anastomosis in trauma patients (n)

Location/mechanism

Leak (n)/handsewn (n) (%)

Leak (n)/stapled (n) (%)

P

Brundage [108]

289

SB and colon /BAT and PAT

0/114 (0)

7/175 (4)

0.04

Demetriades [107]

207

Colon/PAT

11/128 (8%)

4/79 (6%)

0.3

Witzke [109]

254

SB/BAT and PAT

0/145

0/79

ns

Kirkpatrick [106]

127

SB

1/38

3/64

ns

  1. BAT blunt abdominal trauma, PT penetrating abdominal trauma, SB small bowel
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World Journal of Emergency Surgery

ISSN: 1749-7922