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Table 2 Baseline characteristics

From: Advantages of using a prophylactic epidural closed drain and non-watertight dura suture in a craniotomy near the “parietal site”

Variables

Total (N = 63 [100%])

No drain (N = 37 [58.7%])

Drain (N = 26 [41.3%])

P value

Age

49.5 ± 16.3

49.1 ± 16.2

50.2 ± 16.7

0.7804

Male

25 (39.7)

17 (45.9)

8 (30.8)

0.2982

Pathology group

   

0.8658

 Meningioma

35 (55.6)

21 (56.8)

14 (53.8)

 

 CA

20 (31.7)

12 (32.4)

8 (30.8)

 

 Glioma

8 (12.7)

4 (10.8)

4 (15.4)

 

Volume

23.2 (9.0–32.0)

24.0 (9.0–30.0)

16.9 (6.0–40.0)

0.6727

  1. CA cavernous haemangioma
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Chinese Neurosurgical Journal

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