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. 2016 Mar 22;6:23153. doi: 10.1038/srep23153

Table 2. Demographic and clinical characteristics of all patients.

Characteristic	Seizure-free	Non-seizure-free	P value
Preoperative data
Group size (n)	23	14	—
Age (years)	24.52 ± 8.32	26.64 ± 9.68	0.48^a
Sex (male/female)	15/8	6/8	0.31^b
Laterality (left/right)	11/12	7/7	1.00^b
Duration (years)	13.48 ± 1.3	10.11 ± 5.70	0.11^a
Onset age (years)	11.09 ± 1.76	16.43 ± 7.57	0.061^a
Postoperative data
Group size (n)	14	10	—
Age (years)	23.50 ± 7.76	27.00 ± 11.59	0.38^a
Sex (male/female)	9/5	5/5	0.48^b
Laterality (left/right)	6/8	6/4	0.41^b
Duration (years)	14.07 ± 6.72	11.23 ± 5.76	0.29^a
Onset age (years)	12.29 ± 1.49	15.70 ± 8.25	0.24^a
Interval from surgery to postoperative fMRI (months)	13.77 ± 9.04	22.02 ± 16.09	0.12^c
Surgical lacuna (cm³)	5.14 ± 1.66	4.84 ± 1.99	0.70^a

Values are mean ± SD.

^atwo-sample t-test.

^bχ2 test.

^cMann Whitney U-test.