Table 4 Patients’ outcome at postoperative third month regarding IOUS use
From: The role of intraoperative ultrasound in gross total resection of brain mass lesions and outcome
Parameter | IOUS group | Conventional group | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | N | % | ||
Karnofsky improvement | 269 | 81 | 120 | 40 | 0.001 |
Functional Karnofsky outcome | |||||
Independent (80–100) | 252 | 76 | 171 | 57 | 0.03 |
Semi-dependent (60–70) | 55 | 17 | 96 | 32 | 0.02 |
Dependent (≤ 50) | 25 | 8 | 33 | 11 | 0.07 |
Death (0) | 3 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 0.01 |
Postoperative complication improvement | 17/22 | 77 | 29/63 | 46 | 0.02 |