A Prospective Study of Bipolar Transurethral Resection of Prostate Comparing the Efficiency and Safety of the Method in Large and Small Adenomas

Table 5

Comparison of the surgical outcome, operation time, catheterization time, and hospital stay between the two groups of patients (OK).

Variant	Group Α	Group Β	value
	()	()
IPSS	−52.46%	−45.41%	0.934
QoL	−47.57%	−60.60%	0.603
(mL/sec)	157.68%	116.08%	0.384
RU (mL)	−65.03%	−65.82%	0.655
Mean operation time (minutes)	88.76	54.23	<0.001
Mean catheterization time (hours)	29.41	27.58	0.356
Mean hospital stay (hours)	34.06	31.29	0.211

Abnormal distribution: the comparison is based on the Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
Normal distribution: the comparison is based on the -test.