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Table 2. Summary of the results for operating time, intraoperative blood loss, resection rate, duration of hospital stay, and complications.

Groups	N	Operating time(min)	Intraoperativeblood loss (ml)	Resectionrate (%)	Duration ofhospital stay(d)	Complications
MIS group	53	270.00±147.99^★	307.14±185.13^★	77.36^▴	21.88±10.15^★	2^★
Non-MISgroup	69	173.26±81.36	540.08±282.15	72.46	26.42±11.60	12

This table shows the results for operating time, intraoperative blood loss, resection rate, duration of hospital stay, and complications in the MIS and Non-MIS group. “Resection rate” means the percentage of the cases of total resection of tumor. Data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation.

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p<0.05 vs. MIS group;

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p>0.05 vs. Non-MIS group.