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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 3 Patient serum PCT, sCD14-ST, and CRP levels

From: Usage of procalcitonin and sCD14-ST as diagnostic markers for postoperative spinal infection

 

BS

PN group

PI group

F

P

PCT (ng/ml)

0.12 ± 0.03

0.56 ± 0.07

1.46 ± 0.13

58.393

0.000

sCD14-ST (pg/ml)

123.13 ± 1.29

168.59 ± 11.38

678.39 ± 39.17

94.296

0.000

CRP (mg/ml)

2.43 ± 1.39

11.37 ± 9.27

58.12 ± 32.79

76.336

0.000

  1. BS before surgery, PI postoperative infection, PN postoperative non-infection, PCT procalcitonin, sCD14-ST soluble CD14 subtype, CRP C-reactive protein. F is the result of the F-test; P is the P-value from the F-test
  2. P < 0.05 was considered to show a statistically significant difference