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Table 4 Details of Surgical Procedures

From: A comparison of perioperative outcomes of Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgical (VATS) Lobectomy with open thoracotomy and lobectomy: Results of an analysis using propensity score based weighting

 

Open lobe (n = 62)

 

VATS lobe (n = 74)

 

P value

Histology

     

Adeno

44

71%

50

68%

0.898

Squamous

9

15%

12

16%

 

Other

9

15%

12

16%

 

Clinical stage

     

IA

49

79%

65

88%

0.242

IB

13

21%

9

12%

 

Pathologic stage

     

IA

32

52%

45

61%

0.165

IB

20

32%

12

16%

 

II

5

8%

7

9%

 

III, IV

5

8%

10

14%

 

Type of resection

     

RUL

20

32%

23

31%

0.168

RML

3

5%

10

14%

 

RLL

8

13%

12

16%

 

LUL

18

29%

14

19%

 

LLL

10

16%

10

14%

 

Bilobectomy

3

5%

1

1%

 

Segmentectomy

0

0%

4

5%

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