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Table 2 Visual Analogue Scale Scores, Daily Morphine. Equivalent Requirement, Oswestry Disability Index Scores

From: Microwave ablation combined with vertebral augmentation under real-time temperature monitoring for the treatment of painful spinal osteogenic metastases

  

Value, mean ± SD

P Value

Visual analogue scale score

  
 

Preoperative

6.40 ± 1.90

<0.0001

 

24 h

3.32 ± 0.96

<0.0001

 

1week

2.24 ± 0.91

<0.0001

 

4weeks

1.92 ± 1.32

<0.0001

 

12weeks

1.79 ± 1.45

<0.0001

 

24weeks

1.39 ± 1.12

<0.0001

Daily morphine equivalent

  

requirement (mg)

  
 

Preoperative

108.95 ± 56.41

<0.0001

 

24 h

50.13 ± 25.46

<0.0001

 

1week

31.18 ± 18.58

<0.0001

 

4weeks

22.50 ± 16.63

<0.0001

 

12weeks

21.71 ± 17.68

<0.0001

 

24weeks

17.27 ± 16.82

<0.0001

Oswestry disability index

  

score

   
 

Preoperative

39.71 ± 4.95

<0.0001

 

4weeks

24.45 ± 4.17

<0.0001

 

12weeks

19.71 ± 3.33

<0.0001

 

24weeks

17.46 ± 3.48

<0.0001

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