Table 3.
Complications (the Landriel Ibañez classification) and motor deficits.
| First Surgery | Repeat Surgery | All Operated Patients |
p-Value First vs. Repeat |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Patients with complications | 26 | 25.2 | 10 | 33.3 | 36 | 27.1 | 0.387 |
| Grade I | 6 | 5.8 | 2 | 6.7 | 8 | 6.0 | |
| Grade II | 15 | 14.6 | 2 | 6.7 | 17 | 12.8 | 0.047 |
| Grade III | 5 | 4.9 | 6 | 20.0 | 11 | 8.3 | |
| Surgical | 21 | 20.4 | 7 | 23.4 | 28 | 21.1 | 0.732 |
| Medical | 5 | 4.9 | 3 | 10.0 | 8 | 6.0 | 0.302 |
| Temporary | 18 | 17.5 | 4 | 13.3 | 22 | 16.5 | 0.595 |
| Permanent | 8 | 7.8 | 6 | 20.0 | 14 | 10.5 | 0.056 |
| Plegia/paresis | |||||||
| Before surgery | 37 | 35.9 | 21 | 70.0 | 58 | 43.6 | 0.001 |
| At discharge | 67 | 65.0 | 27 | 90.0 | 94 | 70.7 | 0.009 |