Figure 1From: Pain following thoracoscopic surgery: retrospective analysis between single-incision and three-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery Postoperative pain scores on a visual analogue scale according to the number of ports as a function of time after thoracoscopic surgery. Pain scores on postoperative days 0,1, and 3 were higher for patients who underwent three-port VATS than for those who underwent SITS (p = 0.012, 0.039 and 0.037, respectively).Back to article page