Fast acquisition abdominal MRI study for the investigation of suspected acute appendicitis in paediatric patients

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Table 3 Comparison of clinical parameters of subjects from both study groups. There was no statistically significant difference between groups

Characteristic	Free breathing group	Breath-hold group	p value
Symptom duration (days)	1.9	2.2	0.537^a
WCC (cells/L)	18.5	13.4	0.494^a
CRP (mg/L)	12.4	10.5	0.212^a
Length of inpatient hospital stay (days)	2.9	3.1	0.748^a