Surgical related results
No statistically significant differences were seen between any treatment
groups in measures of preoperative or postoperative WBC, RF, HGB drop,
CRP, volume of blood transfusion, wound drainage or temperature at POD1
(table 3). Preoperative ESR was found to be higher in group B than
groups A or C (P= 0.03, 0.02 respectively) (table 1) and postoperative
HGB was higher in group A than B (P= 0.04) (table 3).