Table 2

Clinical presentation in patients with cancer or cirrhosis, and patients without cancer and cirrhosis

Analysis
Patients with cancer or cirrhosis N = 19
Patients without cancer and cirrhosis N = 48


Presentation
Presentation


Acute
Chronic
N (% of total)
Acute
Chronic
N (% of total)

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%)

*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