Monitored anesthesia care and asleep-awake-asleep techniques combined with multiple monitoring for resection of gliomas in eloquent brain areas: a retrospective analysis of 225 patients

Table 1 Patient characteristics

Preoperative characteristics	MAC^a(%)	AAA^b(%)	p-value
Age, years	48.26 ± 13.30	39.41 ± 12.27	0.000
Sex
Male	95 (51.6)	21 (51.2)	0.962
Female	89 (48.4)	20 (48.8)
KPS^c score
80–90	71 (38.6)	15 (36.6)	0.811
100	113 (61.4)	26 (63.4)
MMSE^d score
25–27	12 (6.5)	2 (4.9)	0.971
28–30	172 (93.5)	39 (95.1)

Data are expressed as frequency (prevalence in %) or mean ± standard deviation or median
^aMAC monitored anesthesia care group
^bAAA asleep-awake-asleep group
^cKPS Karnofsky score
^dMMSE minimum mental state examination

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