Clinical evaluation of resection of functional area gliomas guided by intraoperative 3.0 T MRI combined with functional MRI navigation

Table 1 General patient characteristics: between-group comparison

Characteristics	Integrated Navigation Group (n = 60)	Conventional Navigation Group (n = 60)	P -value
Sex (male/female)	35/25	35/25	1.000*
Age (mean ± SD, years)	51.90 ± 13.87	50.02 ± 13.89	0.459†
Preoperative tumor volume (mean ± SD, cm³)	51.24 ± 41.87	49.24 ± 39.48	0.791†
Preoperative KPS score (median ± IQR, score)	90 ± 10	90 ± 10	0.694‡
Tumor location			0.997*
Frontal lobe, corpus callosum	29	27
Temporal lobe, insula	18	19
Parietal lobe	7	8
Thalamus, basal ganglia	5	5
Brainstem	1	1
Tumor grade			0.673^*
LGG	16	14
HGG	44	46

* P-value obtained using Pearson’s chi-square test
^†P-value obtained using independent two-sample t-test
^‡P-value obtained using independent samples Mann–Whitney U test
Abbreviations: KPS, Karnofsky performance status; LGG, low-grade glioma; HGG, high-grade glioma; IQR, interquartile range

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