Practice Trends in the Surgical Management of Renal Tumors in an Academic Medical Center in the Past Decade

Table 3

Number of openandlaparoscopic nephrectomies and comparison of the mean operative time, hospital stay, and tumor size between 2001 and 2010.

	Open; nephrectomies	Laparoscopic nephrectomies	𝑃
Number of surgeries	246	248	—
Operative time (minutes)	215.1	170.6	<0.001
Hospital stay (days)	6.4	3.4	<0.001
Tumor size (cm)	7.5	4.3	<0.001

Mann-Whitney 𝑈 test.