Wound complications—univariate analysis
Overall wound complications – superficial or deep surgical site
infections (SSI), superficial or deep wound dehiscence, or deep organ
space infections (abscess) – occurred in 2/95 (2.1%) in patients with
cancer compared to 1169/28124 (4.2%) of patients without cancer
(p=0.32). Examining incidences of specific wound infections showed no
statistically significant differences between the groups (Table 2).
There were indeed no suture line wound dehiscences in the cancer group.