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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Ultrasound-guided versus traditional surgical resection of supratentorial gliomas in a limited-resources neurosurgical setting

Ā 

IOUS

Control

p value

n

17

13

ā€“

Male (%)

10 (59%)

4 (30%)

0.4

Mean age (SD)

35Ā years (Ā±ā€‰19)

48 (Ā±ā€‰13.7)

0.04

Mean preoperative KPS (SD)

81% (Ā±ā€‰20)

69%(Ā±ā€‰15)

0.053

Preoperative seizures (%)

10 (59%)

4 (30%)

0.4

All preoperative neurological deficits (%)

9 (53%)

11 (85%)

0.1

Speech deficit (%)

3 (18%)

2 (15%)

0.6

Motor deficit (%)

8 (47%)

10 (77%)

0.1

  1. IOUS intraoperative ultrasonography, KPS Karnofsky performance score