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
## Call: survfit(formula = Surv(surv.days, as.numeric(event)) ~ lesion.group, 
##     data = subset(dat.surv.lesion, !is.na(lesion.group)))
## 
##                 lesion.group=l12l13l14 
##  time n.risk n.event survival std.err lower 95% CI upper 95% CI
##     5     38       1    0.974  0.0260        0.924        1.000
##    41     37       2    0.921  0.0437        0.839        1.000
##    54     35       1    0.895  0.0498        0.802        0.998
##    66     34       1    0.868  0.0548        0.767        0.983
##    75     33       1    0.842  0.0592        0.734        0.966
##    84     32       1    0.816  0.0629        0.701        0.949
##    89     31       2    0.763  0.0690        0.639        0.911
##    91     29       1    0.737  0.0714        0.609        0.891
##    98     28       1    0.711  0.0736        0.580        0.870
##   100     27       1    0.684  0.0754        0.551        0.849
##   105     26       1    0.658  0.0770        0.523        0.827
##   111     25       1    0.632  0.0783        0.495        0.805
##   112     24       2    0.579  0.0801        0.441        0.759
##   138     22       1    0.553  0.0807        0.415        0.736
##   182     21       1    0.526  0.0810        0.389        0.712
##   187     20       1    0.500  0.0811        0.364        0.687
##   195     19       1    0.474  0.0810        0.339        0.662
##   205     18       1    0.447  0.0807        0.314        0.637
##   215     16       1    0.419  0.0803        0.288        0.610
##   235     13       1    0.387  0.0804        0.258        0.582
##   272     11       1    0.352  0.0804        0.225        0.551
##   436      6       1    0.293  0.0858        0.165        0.520
## 
##                 lesion.group=l2l4 
##  time n.risk n.event survival std.err lower 95% CI upper 95% CI
##     8     60       1    0.983  0.0165        0.951        1.000
##    15     59       1    0.967  0.0232        0.922        1.000
##    72     58       2    0.933  0.0322        0.872        0.999
##    75     56       1    0.917  0.0357        0.849        0.989
##    91     55       1    0.900  0.0387        0.827        0.979
##    93     54       1    0.883  0.0414        0.806        0.968
##    94     53       1    0.867  0.0439        0.785        0.957
##    98     51       1    0.850  0.0462        0.764        0.945
##    99     50       1    0.833  0.0483        0.743        0.933
##   105     49       1    0.816  0.0502        0.723        0.920
##   112     48       1    0.799  0.0520        0.703        0.907
##   154     47       1    0.782  0.0536        0.683        0.894
##   178     44       1    0.764  0.0552        0.663        0.880
##   182     43       1    0.746  0.0567        0.643        0.866
##   213     38       1    0.727  0.0585        0.620        0.851
##   255     35       1    0.706  0.0604        0.597        0.835
## 
##                 lesion.group=l5l6l7l8 
##  time n.risk n.event survival std.err lower 95% CI upper 95% CI
##     2     67       1    0.985  0.0148        0.956        1.000
##    15     66       1    0.970  0.0208        0.930        1.000
##    28     65       1    0.955  0.0253        0.907        1.000
##    36     64       1    0.940  0.0289        0.885        0.999
##    41     63       2    0.910  0.0349        0.845        0.981
##    43     61       2    0.881  0.0396        0.806        0.962
##    54     59       2    0.851  0.0435        0.770        0.940
##    70     57       2    0.821  0.0468        0.734        0.918
##    75     55       1    0.806  0.0483        0.717        0.906
##    76     54       1    0.791  0.0497        0.699        0.895
##    85     53       1    0.776  0.0509        0.682        0.883
##    89     52       1    0.761  0.0521        0.666        0.870
##    94     51       1    0.746  0.0532        0.649        0.858
##    98     50       2    0.716  0.0551        0.616        0.833
##   100     48       1    0.701  0.0559        0.600        0.820
##   105     47       1    0.687  0.0567        0.584        0.807
##   111     46       1    0.672  0.0574        0.568        0.794
##   112     45       1    0.657  0.0580        0.552        0.781
##   114     44       1    0.642  0.0586        0.537        0.768
##   123     43       1    0.627  0.0591        0.521        0.754
##   154     41       1    0.612  0.0596        0.505        0.740
##   168     40       1    0.596  0.0600        0.490        0.726
##   170     37       1    0.580  0.0605        0.473        0.712
##   192     35       1    0.564  0.0610        0.456        0.697
##   197     34       1    0.547  0.0614        0.439        0.682
##   201     33       1    0.530  0.0618        0.422        0.666
##   216     30       1    0.513  0.0622        0.404        0.650
##   252     26       2    0.473  0.0634        0.364        0.615
##   267     21       1    0.451  0.0642        0.341        0.596
##   322     20       1    0.428  0.0648        0.318        0.576
## 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

## P-value of l2 vs. l4 is 0.40984