Patient details at presentation—individual patients may be included in more than one category
| Total number of patients | 448 |
| Male:female | 216:232 |
| Median (range) age (y) | 67 (14–94) |
| Diagnosis | |
| Malignancy | 219 |
| Colonic carcinoma | 80 |
| Gastric carcinoma | 37 |
| Rectal carcinoma | 61 |
| Pancreatic carcinoma | 24 |
| Other | 17 |
| Inflammatory bowel disease | 40 |
| Crohn’s disease | 21 |
| Ulcerative colitis | 19 |
| Obstruction | 83 |
| Gastric outlet | 10 |
| Small bowel | 39 |
| Large bowel | 34 |
| Jaundice | 33 |
| Pancreatic carcinoma | 22 |
| Hepatocellular carcinoma | 1 |
| Gastric carcinoma | 1 |
| Pancreatitis | 2 |
| Choledocholithiasis | 7 |
| Malnutrition | 59 |