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Fig. 3

From: Clinical impact of postoperative loss in psoas major muscle and nutrition index after radical cystectomy for patients with urothelial carcinoma of the bladder

Fig. 3

Comparison of changes after radical cystectomy between ileal conduit/neobladder group and uretero-cutaneostomy group.Time-course changes in cross-section area of the psoas major muscle at the level of L3 (a), abdominal skeletal muscle area at the level of L3 (b), the PNI (c) and, the CONUT score (d). Data of ileal conduit/neobladder group (red) and cutaneostomy group (blue) conduit are plotted by means ± SD. Scores of two groups compared in each time point by the Mann-Whitney U-test. ns, not significant

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