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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 22.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2009 Dec 22;17(4):998–1009. doi: 10.1245/s10434-009-0839-0

TABLE 3.

Patient demographics: all patients

Laparoscopic Open P-value
Cohort size, n 44 29
 Pure laparoscopic 10 NA
 Hand assisted 34 NA
Gender, n (%) 0.11
 Male 13 (30) 14 (48)
 Female 31 (70) 15 (52)
Average age, years 55 62 0.04
Average ASA score, n 2.5 2.7 0.10
Median operative time, min 233 249 0.08
Average tumor size, cm (SD) 5.1 (2.9) 4.1 (3.6) 0.04
Rate of malignancy (%) 43 86 0.001

NA not applicable, SD standard deviation