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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 4 Overview of the secondary outcome parameters of the two study groups

From: Blood-saving dissection with monopolar tungsten needle electrodes and Teflon-coated spatula electrodes in tumor orthopedics

Secondary outcome parameters

Control group

(n = 53)

Intervention group

(n = 79)

p-value

Surgical time [incision to suture time in minutes, median (IQR)]

201 (157–272)

185 (145–243)

0.1563*

Length of hospital stay [days, median (IQR)]

18 (11–27)

14 (10–27)

0.1744*

Patients needing revision surgery due to wound healing disorders, n (%)

4 (8%)

4 (5%)

0.7133

Patients needing revision surgery due to hemorrhage, n (%)

1 (2%)

2 (2.5%)

 > 0.9999

  1. IQR interquartile range
  2. *p-value from Mann–Whitney U-test
  3. p-value from Fischer’s exact test