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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Surg. 2021 May 13:S0002-9610(21)00280-4. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.05.001

Table 3:

Distribution of patients (cases) enrolled, number of parathyroid glands (PGs) visualized per patient and number of frozen section analysis (FSA) performed per case at the 3 study sites. All participant surgeons visually confirmed PGs solely based on their surgical experience and remained blinded to output from PTeye®.

Site Surgeon Surgeon experience at time of study Thyroid procedures per annum Parathyroid + combined procedures per annum All procedures Thyroid procedures Parathyroid + combined procedures
Cases Number of PGs* PGs per case* FSA per case Cases PGs per case* FSA per case Cases PGs per case* FSA per case
Site 1 Surgeon A > 10 years 93 97 28 62 2.21 0.57 11 2.09 0.00 17 2.29 0.94
Surgeon B < 5 years 28 23 11 28 2.55 0.73 6 2.50 0.00 5 2.60 1.60
Total 39 90 2.31 0.62 17 2.24 0.00 22 2.36 1.09
Site 2 Surgeon C > 10 years 121 82 38 62 1.63 0.39 23 1.91 0.09 15 1.20 0.93
Surgeon D < 5 years 113 44 12 23 1.92 0.00 10 2.10 0.00 2 1.00 0.00
Total 50 85 1.70 0.30 33 1.97 0.06 17 1.18 0.81
Site 3 Surgeon E > 10 years 140 130 50 141 2.82 0.32 30 2.63 0.10 20 3.10 0.65
Surgeon F < 5 years 80 54 28 70 2.50 0.39 13 2.23 0.08 15 2.73 0.67
Total 78 211 2.71 0.35 43 2.51 0.09 35 2.94 0.66
Overall All surgeons > 10 years 354 309 116 265 2.28 0.41 64 2.28 0.08 52 2.29 0.81
All surgeons < 5 years 221 121 51 121 2.37 0.37 29 2.24 0.03 22 2.55 0.82
Total 167 386 2.31 0.40 93 2.27 0.06 74 2.36 0.81
*

Total number of confirmed PGs: in-situ PGs identified by surgeons with moderate-to-high confidence + excised PGs validated with histology.