Fig. 5

Occurrence of suture leakage and survival of patients in dependence of peritonitis extent. Shown is the cumulative incidence of suture leakage (a) and the survival (b) after source control surgery for secondary peritonitis with suture placement in the lower gastrointestinal tract, in dependence of the intraoperatively detected peritonitis extent, quantified through the peritonitis extent score (Fig. 2b in Material and Methods)