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Table 1 Patients’ baseline characteristics

From: Comparison of acetic acid and ethanol sclerotherapy for simple renal cysts: clinical experience with 86 patients

Variable	Overall	Group
Variable	Overall	Acetic acid	Ethanol	p value
Number (%)	86 (100.0)	42 (48.8)	44 (51.2)
Age	61.1 ± 11.0	59.7 ± 13.1	62.3 ± 8.5	0.2721^a
Sex
Male	49 (57.0)	22 (52.4)	27 (61.4)	0.400^b
Female	37 (43.0)	20 (47.6)	17 (38.6)
Cyst location
Right	36 (41.9)	19 (45.2)	17 (38.6)	0.535^b
Left	50 (58.1)	23 (54.8)	27 (61.4)
Pretreatment volume (ml)	206.7 ± 242.1	194.9 ± 211.2	217.9 ± 270.3	0.116^c
Follow-up period (days)		326.7 ± 296.6	727.2 ± 854.2	0.258^a

^aIndependent t test
^bChi square test
^cMann–Whitney U test

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