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Clinical presentation in patients with cancer or cirrhosis, and patients without cancer and cirrhosis |
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| Analysis |
Patients with cancer or cirrhosis N = 19 |
Patients without cancer and cirrhosis N = 48 |
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| Presentation |
Presentation |
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| Acute |
Chronic |
N (% of total) |
Acute |
Chronic |
N (% of total) |
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| Abdominalia |
7 (70%) |
5 (56%) |
46 (63%) |
16 (94%) |
18 (58%) |
34 (71%) |
| Splenomegaly |
7 (70%) |
5 (56%) |
12 (63%) |
10 (59%) |
26 (84%) |
36 (75%) |
| Fever |
5 (50%) |
2 (22%) |
7 (37%) |
10 (59%) |
5 (16%) |
15 (31%) |
| Haemorrhage |
6 (22%) |
5 (35%) |
11 (58%) |
0 |
9 (29%) |
9 (19%) |
| Ascites |
4 (40%) |
2 (22%) |
6 (32%) |
8 (47%) |
10 (38%) |
18 (38%) |
| Weight loss |
1 (10%) |
2 (22%) |
3 (16%) |
9 (53%) |
7 (23%) |
16 (33%) |
| Total |
10 (53%) |
9 (47%) |
19 (100%) |
17 (35%) |
31 (65%) |
48 (100%) |
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*Data are presented as N of total number and % within the acute/chronic presentation. | ||||||
Sogaard et al. BMC Gastroenterology 2007 7:34 doi:10.1186/1471-230X-7-34 |
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