Exclusion criteria comprised age under 18 and refusal from the patients or their relatives to participate.
Patient characteristics comprised age, gender, affected side, follow-up period, age at injury, risk of surgery as reflected by ASA-classification [7], and operative technique.
The result indicated that not only different treatment modalities, but also other factors comprising age, sex, pretreatment dento-skeleton, and soft tissue morphology seemed to be related to the profile changes.
The results of the present study clearly show that BSI is prognostic for OS during ADT,both as an isolated measure and when added to a classical prognostic model comprising age, PSA, cT and GS.
Exclusion criteria comprised: age <18 years, refusal to participate, planned off-pump surgery, urgent cardiac surgery, insufficient knowledge of the German language or all-cause complications in the immediate postoperative course.
Exclusion criteria comprised age less than 18 years, prior enrollment of a first or second degree relative, and indication of acute illness that could impact t-PA or PAI-1 levels.
Inclusion criteria comprised age ≥18 years and singleton pregnancy.
Multivariate analysis comprised age (as categorical, >60 years), sex, histological type, stage, grade, and serum p53Abs.
This was not replicated in another model comprising age and stage of disease.
