World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Table 3 Comparison of the length of operation and hospital stay between the endoscopic and microscopic approaches

From: Endoscopic versus microscopic transsphenoidal pituitary adenoma surgery: a meta-analysis

	Endoscopic group	Microscopic group	P Value^a
Length of operation
Mean time, min	173 ± 5 minutes	201 ± 46 minutes	0.349
Total number of studies	6^b(190)	6^b(208)	0.349
Length of hospital stay
Mean time, days	3.8 ± 0.9 days	6.3 ± 1.3 days	P = 0.00017
Total numberof studies	10^c(239)	10^c(250)	P = 0.00017

^aStatistical analysis performed using equal-variance t-test; ^bReferences [7, 9–11, 14, 16]; ^cReferences [7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18],[19, 21].

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