Table 5.
Complications requiring revision surgery, length of stay and postoeprative course of physical status among cranial and spinal WHO grade 1 and 2 meningiomas (n = 541). Statistical analysis was performed using independent t-test and Pearson’s chi-squared test (two-sided).
| Variable | Cranial (n = 418) |
Spinal (n = 123) |
p-Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgical site infections | 16 (3.8%) | 1 (0.8%) | 0.16 |
| Postoperative hemorrhage | 12 (2.8%) | 2 (1.6%) | 0.66 |
| Postoperative CSF fistula | 12 (2.8%) | 3 (2.4%) | 0.80 |
| New onset epilepsy | 24 (6.0%) | - | |
| Pulmonary embolism | 5 (1.2%) | 1 (0.8%) | 0.72 |
| Length of stay (in days) | |||
| Mean +/− SD | 11.0 +/− 8.1 | 13.1 +/− 12.7 | 0.08 |
| Baseline KPS | 0.001 | ||
| Mean +/− SD | 89.8 +/− 11.5 | 82.1 +/− 11.0 | |
| KPS at 3 months | 0.81 | ||
| Mean +/− SD | 88.7 +/− 17.9 | 88.1 +/− 10.0 | |
| KPS at 12 months | 0.54 | ||
| Mean +/− SD | 87.8 +/− 20.5 | 89.6 +/− 9.1 |