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Table 6 Baseline characteristics: treatment and complications (chi-square test)

From: A single-center experience: management of patients with thymic epithelial tumors

 

Surgery technique

Adjuvant chemotherapy

Adjuvant radiotherapy

Clavien-Dindo

Characteristics

Minimally invasive

open

P

Yes

No

P

Yes

No

P

I–IIIa

IIIb–IV

P

Gender

  

1

  

0.868

  

0.608

  

0.868

 Female

13

13

 

5

21

 

9

17

 

21

5

 

 Male

7

7

 

3

11

 

6

8

 

11

3

 

Age, years

  

0.440

  

0.507

  

0.123

  

0.868

 ≤ 60

14

12

 

6

20

 

12

14

 

21

5

 

 > 60

6

8

 

2

12

 

3

11

 

11

3

 

Masaoka stage

 

0.033

  

< 0.001

  

0.019

  

0.256

 I

7

3

 

0

10

 

1

9

 

10

0

 

 II

10

5

 

1

14

 

7

8

 

10

5

 

 III

1

3

 

1

3

 

0

4

 

3

1

 

 IV

1

7

 

6

2

 

5

3

 

6

2

 

Surgery technique

 

  

0.114

  

0.744

  

0.018

 Minimally invasive

 

2

18

 

7

13

 

19

1

 

 Open

 

6

14

 

8

12

 

13

7

 

Residual tumor

 

0.938

  

< 0.001

  

0.331

  

0.637

 R0

14

13

 

1

26

 

8

19

 

22

5

 

 R1

5

6

 

5

6

 

6

5

 

8

3

 

 R2

1

1

 

2

0

 

1

1

 

2

0

 

Adjuvant radiotherapy

0.744

  

0.410

  

  

0.414

 Yes

7

8

 

4

11

 

 

11

4

 

 No

13

12

 

4

21

 

 

21

4

 

Adjuvant chemotherapy

0.114

  

  

0.414

  

0.553

 Yes

2

6

 

 

4

4

 

7

1

 

 No

18

14

 

 

11

21

 

25

7

 

Clavien-Dindo

 

0.018

  

0.553

  

0.414

   

 I–IIIa

19

13

 

7

25

 

11

21

 

 

 IIIb–IV

1

7

 

1

7

 

4

4