Table 3.
Variable | All patients n = 76 |
Group 1 n = 21 |
Group 2 n = 55 |
P value |
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Acoustic sonication power (W) | 141.0 ± 25.4 (90–250) | 138.6 ± 25.9 (90–180) | 142 ± 25.3 (100–250) | 0.602 |
Treatment duration (min) | 127.9 ± 55.0 (41–379) | 125.4 ± 73.2 (61–379) | 128.8 ± 47 (41–258) | 0.808 |
Treatment speed (ml/min) | 1.04 ± 0.61 (0.09–2.49) | 1.08 ± 0.63 (0.25–2.18) | 1.03 ± 0.61 (0.09–2.49) | 0.740 |
Number of therapy sonications per treatment | ||||
overall | 33.0 ± 12.2 (14–67) | 32.3 ± 15.2 (14–67) | 33.2 ± 10.9 (15–65) | 0.763 |
4 mm | 9.5 ± 12.1 (1–39) | 11.8 ± 18.3 (1–39) | 8.0 ± 7.4 (1–17) | 0.659 |
8 mm | 13.3 ± 10.3 (1–48) | 9.1 ± 8.4 (3–28) | 14.6 ± 10.6 (1–48) | 0.191 |
12 mm | 11.7 ± 9.3 (1–45) | 12.8 ± 8.6 (2–30) | 11.2 ± 9.7 (1–45) | 0.607 |
14 mm | 17.4 ± 12.7 (1–50) | 19.9 ± 14.0 (1–50) | 16.4 ± 12.2 (1–39) | 0.385 |
16 mm | 16.5 ± 14.1 (1–53) | 12.5 ± 14.9 (1–46) | 17.7 ± 13.9 (1–53) | 0.366 |
NPV ratio (%) | 90.3 ± 13.6 (32.0–100.0) | 87.0 ± 14.1 (57.5–100.0) | 91.5 ± 13.3 (32.0–100.0) | 0.205 |
Values in parentheses represent ranges