Table 5 Patients’ outcome at postoperative third month regarding the extent of resection
From: The role of intraoperative ultrasound in gross total resection of brain mass lesions and outcome
Parameter | Gross total, n = 362 | Subtotal, n = 207 | Partial, n = 63 | p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
Karnofsky improvement | 292 | 81 | 86 | 42 | 11 | 17 | 0.001 |
Functional Karnofsky outcome | |||||||
Independent (80–100) | 257 | 71 | 133 | 64 | 33 | 52 | < 0.05 |
Semi-dependent (6–70) | 81 | 22 | 39 | 19 | 16 | 25 | |
Dependent (≤ 50) | 20 | 6 | 28 | 14 | 10 | 16 | |
Death (0) | 4 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | |
Postoperative complications improvement | 24/37 | 65 | 7/33 | 52 | 5/15 | 33 | 0.01 |