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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Urology. 2011 Aug;78(2):422–426. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.12.048

Table 2.

In-Hospital Surgical Outcomes, by Procedure Type

Radical
Nephrectomy		 Partial
Nephrectomy		 p Value
Length of Stay, in Days
(Median, IQR):		 6 (4-7) 6 (4-8) 0.54‡
Hospital Charges
(Median, IQR):		 $44,849
($32,636-60,907)		 $38,284
($27,207-57,897)		 0.02‡
Surgical Complications (n,%):
Yes 183 (16%) 24 (21%) 0.24*
No 935 (83%) 93 (79%)
*

Fisher’s exact test

‡

Wilcoxon rank-sum test