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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg. 2023 Jun 30;278(4):549–558. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000005985

Table 4:

Comparison of parathyroid glands (PGs) identified with high confidence before and after using NIRAF-probe in the intervention (NIRAF) cohort of 80 patients itself.

No. of PGs identified with high confidence BEFORE using probe in NIRAF cohort No. of PGs identified with high confidence AFTER using probe in NIRAF cohort p-value
Overall 2.7 PGs/patient 3.1 PGs/patient <0.001a
Senior Surgeon 3.2 PGs/patient 3.6 PGs/patient <0.001a
Junior Surgeon 2.2 PGs/patient 2.5 PGs/patient 0.001a
Resident 0.9 PGs/patient 2.9 PGs/patient <0.001a
a –

paired t-test analysis. PG, parathyroid gland(s)