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Published in final edited form as: J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2019 Jul 5;24(3):293–305. doi: 10.3171/2019.4.PEDS1994

Table 2.

Accuracy of the proposed surgical margin to predict postoperative deficit in face weakness (d1* = −1.9 mm), hand weakness (d2* = 2.3 mm), leg weakness (d3* = −4.8 mm), language (d48* = 1.4, 1.6, 0.7, −2.8 mm) and visual field (d9* = −4.6 mm) in the modeling dataset (Supplemental Table 1, n=40). Values are listed for eleven different modeling groups/subgroups: seizure free (n=24), not seizure free (n=16), combined set (n=40), age at MRI ≤ 5 years old (n=11), age at MRI 6–10 years old (n=11), age at MRI > 10 years old (n=18), daily seizures (n=21), weekly seizures (n=9) and monthly seizures (n=8). [ ] indicates the probability of seizure freedom while preserving d* (i.e., d > d* in mm): P(seizure freedom|di*).

Group (n) d1* d2* d3* d4* d5* d6* d7* d8* d9*

Seizure free (24) 0.83 0.96 0.96 0.96 0.75 0.83 0.88 0.75 0.92
Not seizure free (16) 0.88 1.00 0.94 0.94 0.94 1.00 0.94 0.94 0.81
Combined set (40) 0.85 [0.67] 0.98 [0.79] 0.95 [0.88] 0.95 [0.79] 0.83 [0.83] 0.90 [0.67] 0.90 [0.79] 0.83 [0.67] 0.88 [0.67]
age at MRI ≤ 5 years old (11) 0.73 [0.40] 1.00 [0.40] 0.91 [0.60] 1.00 [0.80] 0.91 [0.60] 0.91 [0.60] 1.00 [0.80] 0.91 [0.60] 0.82 [0.40]
age at MRI 6–10 years old (11) 1.00 [1.00] 1.00 [1.00] 1.00 [1.00] 1.00 [0.86] 0.73 [0.86] 1.00 [0.86] 1.00 [0.86] 0.82 [0.86] 1.00 [0.86]
age at MRI > 10 years old (18) 0.83 [0.67] 0.94 [0.83] 0.94 [0.92] 0.89 [0.75] 0.83 [0.92] 0.83 [0.58] 0.78 [0.75] 0.78 [0.58] 0.83 [0.58]
Daily seizure (21) 0.81 [0.45] 1.00 [0.73] 0.91 [0.82] 0.95 [0.82] 0.86 [0.91] 0.91 [0.73] 0.95 [1.00] 0.91 [0.73] 0.91 0.82]
Weekly seizure (9) 0.89 [1.00] 1.00 [1.00] 1.00 [1.00] 0.89 [0.83] 0.67 [0.67] 0.89 [0.67] 0.89 [0.83] 0.78 [0.67] 0.78 [0.67]
Monthly seizure (8) 1.00 [0.80] 0.88 [0.60] 1.00 [0.80] 1.00 [0.80] 1.00 [0.80] 0.88 [0.60] 0.75 [0.40] 0.88 [0.60] 0.88 [0.60]