1. reasonsforreferral versus locationoffistula

##    1  2  3 p.value
## 1 12 22  7    0.01
## 2  0 23 12    0.02
## 3 10 28 12    0.32
## 4  0 11  6    0.23
## 5  2 19  5    0.36
## 6  1  7  6    0.49
## 7  3 14  8    0.95
## 8  5  7  5    0.12
## 9  3 22 13    0.47

2. The distribution of number of lesions in each fistulogram

##    1  2  3 p.value
## 0  0  4  4    0.39
## 1 19 93 49    0.40
## 2 11 44 21    0.96
## 3  6 10  0    0.00
## 4  0  2  0    1.00

4. Angioplasty survival for each lesion:

##                         25  50 75
## lesion.group=l12l13l14  91 191 NA
## lesion.group=l2l4      182  NA NA
## lesion.group=l5l6l7l8   94 252 NA
## P-value of three groups comparison is 0.00088
## P-value of l5+l6+l7+l8 vs. l12+l13+l14 is 0.40984
## P-value of l5+l6+l7+l8 vs. l2+l4 is 0.00351
## P-value of l2+l4 vs. l12+l13+l14 is 0.00067

##  25  50  75 
## 100 300  NA
## Call: survfit(formula = Surv(surv.days, as.numeric(event)) ~ 1, data = dat.surv.lesion)
## 
##  time n.risk n.event survival std.err lower 95% CI upper 95% CI
##     2    185       1    0.995 0.00539        0.984        1.000
##     5    184       1    0.989 0.00760        0.974        1.000
##     8    183       1    0.984 0.00929        0.966        1.000
##    12    182       1    0.978 0.01069        0.958        1.000
##    15    181       2    0.968 0.01302        0.942        0.993
##    18    179       1    0.962 0.01403        0.935        0.990
##    28    177       2    0.951 0.01584        0.921        0.983
##    36    175       1    0.946 0.01665        0.914        0.979
##    41    174       4    0.924 0.01950        0.887        0.963
##    42    170       1    0.919 0.02013        0.880        0.959
##    43    169       2    0.908 0.02131        0.867        0.951
##    54    167       3    0.891 0.02291        0.848        0.938
##    66    164       1    0.886 0.02341        0.841        0.933
##    70    163       2    0.875 0.02435        0.829        0.924
##    72    161       3    0.859 0.02565        0.810        0.911
##    75    158       3    0.843 0.02684        0.792        0.897
##    76    155       1    0.837 0.02721        0.785        0.892
##    84    154       1    0.832 0.02757        0.779        0.888
##    85    153       1    0.826 0.02792        0.773        0.883
##    89    152       3    0.810 0.02891        0.755        0.869
##    91    149       2    0.799 0.02953        0.743        0.859
##    93    147       1    0.794 0.02982        0.737        0.854
##    94    146       2    0.783 0.03039        0.725        0.845
##    98    143       4    0.761 0.03145        0.702        0.825
##    99    139       1    0.755 0.03170        0.696        0.820
##   100    138       2    0.744 0.03217        0.684        0.810
##   105    136       3    0.728 0.03283        0.666        0.795
##   109    133       1    0.723 0.03303        0.661        0.790
##   111    132       2    0.712 0.03343        0.649        0.780
##   112    130       6    0.679 0.03447        0.614        0.750
##   114    124       1    0.673 0.03462        0.609        0.745
##   123    123       1    0.668 0.03477        0.603        0.740
##   138    121       1    0.662 0.03492        0.597        0.734
##   144    120       1    0.657 0.03506        0.592        0.729
##   154    119       2    0.646 0.03533        0.580        0.719
##   168    117       1    0.640 0.03546        0.574        0.714
##   170    114       1    0.635 0.03559        0.569        0.708
##   178    110       1    0.629 0.03573        0.563        0.703
##   182    109       2    0.617 0.03599        0.551        0.692
##   185    107       1    0.612 0.03612        0.545        0.687
##   187    105       1    0.606 0.03624        0.539        0.681
##   192    104       1    0.600 0.03636        0.533        0.676
##   195    103       1    0.594 0.03647        0.527        0.670
##   197    101       1    0.588 0.03658        0.521        0.664
##   201    100       2    0.576 0.03678        0.509        0.653
##   205     97       1    0.570 0.03688        0.503        0.648
##   213     92       1    0.564 0.03699        0.496        0.642
##   215     91       1    0.558 0.03710        0.490        0.636
##   216     90       1    0.552 0.03720        0.484        0.630
##   226     88       1    0.546 0.03731        0.477        0.624
##   235     85       1    0.539 0.03742        0.471        0.618
##   252     79       2    0.526 0.03769        0.457        0.605
##   255     77       1    0.519 0.03782        0.450        0.598
##   267     73       1    0.512 0.03796        0.442        0.592
##   272     72       1    0.504 0.03809        0.435        0.585
##   300     68       1    0.497 0.03825        0.427        0.578
##   322     63       1    0.489 0.03845        0.419        0.571
##   401     36       1    0.476 0.03971        0.404        0.560
##   436     30       1    0.460 0.04143        0.385        0.549