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Table 3 Surgery-related characteristics and postoperative course

From: The impact of preoperative language mapping by repetitive navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation on the clinical course of brain tumor patients

 

GROUP 1

GROUP 2

p-value

Mean surgery duration (min)

240.3 ± 53.2

215.5 ± 48.5

0.0914

Residual tumor (%)

intraoperatively expected

12.0

24.0

0.2695

on post-operative MRI

44.0

40.0

0.7745

unexpected residual

32.0

16.0

0.1853

Surgery-related complications on MRI (%)

Increasing edema

4.2

0.0

0.4810

Ischemia

29.2

30.8

Bleeding

25.0

15.4

CSF circulation dysfunction

4.2

0.0

Median postoperative Karnofsky performance status (%)

80 (95% CI 75.8 – 84.2)

90 (95% CI 85.5 – 94.6)

0.2102

Mean inpatient stay (days)

12.2 ± 6.5

11.6 ± 5.8

0.7152

Postoperative language deficit (%)

none/mild

52.0

84.0

0.0153

medium/severe

48.0

16.0

Follow-up language deficit (%)

none/mild

84.0

92.0

0.3841

medium/severe

16.0

8.0

  1. This table provides information about the clinical course of GROUP 1 compared to GROUP 2, including duration of surgery, residual tumor, unexpected residual, surgery-related complications, Karnofsky performance status scale (KPS), inpatient stay, language status at the 5th postoperative day, and language status during follow-ups.