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Table 1 Baseline demographic data

From: Cholelithiasis and cholecystitis in children and adolescents: Does this increasing diagnosis require a common guideline for pediatricians and pediatric surgeons?

 

Pediatric surgery group (n = 34)

Visceral surgery group (n = 53)

p value

Test

Age at surgery [in years: median (range)]

15 (7–17)

23 (15–25)

  

Sex [n (%)]

  

0.687

Chi-square

 Male

11 (32%)

15 (28%)

  

 Female

23 (68%)

38 (72%)

  

Index admission [n (%)]

  

 < 0.001*

Chi-square

 Internal/pediatric medical

25 (74%)

12 (23%)

  

 Surgical/pediatric surgical

9 (26%)

41 (77%)

  

Concomitant diagnoses [n (%)]

  

0.163

Chi-square/Fisher

 No other diagnosis

16 (47%)

33 (62%)

  

 Concomitant diagnoses

18 (53%)

20 (38%)

  

 Spherocytosis/hemolytic disorder

7 (20%)

0

0.001

 

 Total/partial parenteral nutrition

4 (12%)

0

0.021

 

 Reduction of weight

2 (6%)

3 (6%)

1.000

 

 Malignancy

1 (3%)

2 (4%)

1.000

 

 Other (inter alia cerebral palsy, renal transplantation, myasthenia gravis, musc. dystrophies, Behcet’s disease)

4 (12%)

15 (28%)

 0.090

 

 Weight at surgery [n (%)]

  

 < 0.001*

 Fisher

 Normal weight

28 (82%)

22 (42%)

  

 Overweight

0

18 (34%)

  

 Obesity

6 (18%)

13 (24%)

  
  1. Summary of baseline data comparing patients of the pediatric surgery group (children and adolescents) with patients of the visceral surgery group (adolescents and young adults aged ≤ 25 years)
  2. Significant values are indicated by an asterisk