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Section Type: RESULTS

Text: There was no difference between patients who had NGT decompression and those who did not in terms of overall surgical complications (15. 0 versus 19. 0 per cent respectively ; P = 0. 451) medical morbidity (61. 0 versus 55. 0 per cent ; P = 0. 391), in-hospital mortality (3. 0 versus 2. 0 per cent ; P = 0. 640), duration of ileus (mean (s. d.) 4. 3 (1. 5) versus 4. 5 (1. 7) days ; P = 0. 400) or length of hospital stay (14. 2 (8. 5) versus 15. 8 (10. 8) days ; P = 0. 220).