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 | |||||||
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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.