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Table 7 Relationship of POV by 120 hours to adverse outcomes

From: Children's vomiting following posterior fossa surgery: A retrospective study

 

Vomiting by 120 hours

n (% total)

Phi Statistic

(Significance)

Total (n = 249)

No

Yes

 

   Pseudomeningocele

   

No

49 (19.7)

124 (49.8)

 

Yes

19 (7.6)

57 (22.9)

0.03 (p = .59)

   Would Failure/CSF Leak

   

No

55 (22.1)

158 (63.5)

 

Yes

13(5.2)

23 (9.2)

-0.08 (p = .20)

   Wound Infection

   

No

63 (25.3)

175 (70.3)

 

Yes

5 (2.0)

6 (2.4)

-0.09 (p = .17)

Brain Tumour (n = 153)

   

   Posterior Fossa Syndrome

   

No

34 (22.2)

82 (53.6)

 

Yes

13 (8.5)

24 (15.7)

-0.05 (p = .50)