Is conservative management a safe approach for patients with acute acalculous cholecystitis presenting with an acute abdomen?

Medicine (Baltimore) · 2023 · PMC10476726 · PMID 37656996

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did not quite reach statistical significanceP = .056so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Eighteen of 68 patients undergoing cholecystectomy had symptom deterioration, while only fourteen of 103 patients who received conservative treatment deteriorated, although this difference did not quite reach statistical significance (chi-squared test P = .056; Fig. 2 A).

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