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Table 2 Clinical and surgical characteristics

	Elective	Urgency	P value	OR and 95%CI
Location			0.004c
Cecum/Ascendent	44 (35.8%)	18 (27.3%)
Transverse	4 (3.3%)	5 (7.6%)
Splenic Angle	0	4 (6.1%)
Descendent	6 (4.9%)	9 (13.6%)
Sigmoid	69 (56.1%)	30 (45.5%)
Surgery1			0.016c
Right colectomy	45 (36.6%)	20 (30.3%)
Transversectomy	2 (1.6%)	2 (3.0%)
Left colectomy	6 (4.9%)	11 (16.7%)
Retosigmoidectomy	66 (53.7%)	27 (40.9%)
Total colectomy	4 (3.3%)	6 (9.1%)
Surgical access			< 0.001a
Open	70 (56.9%)	66 (100%)
Videolaparoscopy	53 (43.1%)	0
Early mortality	6 (4.9%)	10 (15.2%)	0.016a	OR: 3.48, 95%CI: 1.21-10.06

¹With or without enterostomy.

^aQui-square of Pearson’s test.

^bt test for independent samples.

^cExact Fisher’s test.

^dMean and standard deviation.