Sentence examples for margin groups from inspiring English sources

This is reflected in proportions of patients in the < 1-cm <span class="lh">margin groups in relation to the > 1-cm margin groups (Table  1).

Therefore, in six studies with relevant data, the rates of anastomotic failure were compared between the < 1-cm <span class="lh">margin groups (n = 404) and the > 1-cm margin groups (n = 2079) (Table  2).

During the analysis, we also observed that patients undergoing AR in the short margin groups were frequently described to have more favorable tumors than patients undergoing AR in the long margin groups or than patients undergoing APR.

A persisting trend for higher complication rates in the 74 Gy and 1.5 cm margin groups is seen.

At 2 years after radiotherapy, there was a statistically significant increase in bowel toxicity for both the 74 Gy and 1.5 cm margin groups.

Of the 19 patients with local or metastatic failure, 12/7 were from the 64/74 Gy and 11/8 from the 1.0/1.5 cm margin groups, respectively.

In our cohort, patients in the close margin group and patients in the positive margin group had similar risks of local recurrence, which were significantly higher than the risk of local recurrence among patients in the clear margin group.

Two studies showed statistically significantly higher actuarial local recurrence rate in the short margin group compared to the long margin group.

In the remaining 15 studies the difference in local recurrence rate between the short margin group and to the long margin group was not significant in univariate analysis.

However, the 1.5 cm margin group had a consistently higher complication rate after treatment.

In total, the local recurrence rate was 1.0% higher in the <1-cm <span class="lh">margin group compared to the >1-cm margin group (95% confidence interval [CI] −0.6 to 2.7; P = 0.175).