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Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier curves for cumulative continued survival of the 197 operative survivors divided into era of surgery: 1973 through 1980 (solid line), 1981 through 1987 (dotted line), 1988 through 1997 (dashed line). There is a statistically significant improvement in continued survival among patients operated on more recently.
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