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Table 3.

Patients’ angiographic lesion severity and their modified Rankin Scale scores in both treatment groups (after PSM)

Variables	CAS, n (%)	CEA, n (%)	P value
Angiographic lesion severity
60–69%	5 (7)	4 (5)	0.852
70–79%	27 (36)	6 (8)	< 0.05
80–89%	36 (47)	38 (50)	0.916
90–99%	8 (10)	28 (37)	< 0.05
Modified Rankin Scale score
0–1	47 (62)	53 (70)	0.759
2–3	29 (38)	23 (30)	0.078

Significant value is in bold

Declarations

Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. Izatullah Jalalzai on language editing and improving the article.

Author contributions

OB: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Project administration, Writing—original draft. ESÇ: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing—original draft, Supervision, Project administration. ÜA: Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing—original draft. YK: Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing—review & editing. UK: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing—review & editing. AÇ: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Software, Validation. MHT: Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Project administration. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

The study was carried out according to the Declaration of Helsinki (as amended in 2013) and the approval of the Ethics Committee of the Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine was obtained for this study (B.30.2.ATA.0.01.00/714).

Consent to participate

For surgical or interventional procedures, patients’ informed consend was acquired, however, since the study was retrospective and the data were anonymized, informed consent was waived.

Consent to publication

Not applicable.

Availability of data and materials

On reasonable request, the corresponding author will provide the data supporting the study’s conclusions.

Funding

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