The median 6-week follow-up in the foldable group was 42 days (range 26 207) and in the rigid group 42 days (range 27 207).
The median 1-year follow-up in the foldable group was 395 days (range 135– 693) and in the rigid group 394 days (range 250 706).
Admission tickets, covering one to five days, range from $30 to $45.
Ten children were hospitalized (median duration, 3 days; range, 2 to 79 days).
The median time to full oral feeding was 30 days (range, 5 to 160 days), and to discharge was 42 days (range, 11 to 183 days).
Neutrophil and platelet engraftment was observed in all assessable patients (100%), achieved at median 15.5 days (range, 7 to 31) and 21 days (range, 10 to 52), respectively.
Mean postsurgical time to feedmap was 5.7 days (range, 2 to 12 days), and mean hospital length of stay was 9.6 days (range, 4 to 15 days).
Mean length of hospitalization was 4.9 days (range: 1-16).
The median length of treatment was 282 days (range 12 492) at MFT, 272 days (range 6 457) at Hull and 28 days (range 28 56) at Newcastle.
The total fixator time was 213 days (range 98 383 days) and treatment time 180 days (range 103 390 days).
Hospital length of stay after laparoscopic gastrectomy was 5 days (range 2-26 days), compared with 7 days (range 5-30 days) in the open group (p = 0.01).
