Table 1.
The main characteristics of the patient sample.
Fig 1.
Histogram of postoperative highest body temperature in 797 patients.
Fig 2.
The time of first fever after liver resection.
Multiple fever spike means that fever develops at least once on the different days after the first episode.
Fig 3.
The extent of maximum temperature according to the frequency of postoperative fever.
More patients had a high fever above 38.6°C in multiple fever-spike group.
Table 2.
Risk factors for the occurrence of postoperative fever.
Table 3.
Outcome of the 401 patients with postoperative fever according to the characteristics of fever.
Table 4.
Characteristics of fever related with the occurrence of febrile infectious complication.
Table 5.
Predictors of febrile infectious complications.
Table 6.
Combined predictors of febrile infectious complications.