From: Clinical application of single incision thoracoscopic surgery: early experience of 264 cases
Variables | Wedge resection, PNX (n = 194) | Wedge resection, others* (n = 32) | Lobectomy (n = 6) | Decortication (n = 11) | Mediastinal mass excision (n = 11) |
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Median age, years | 19 (14–79) | 61.5 (34–86) | 50 (12–66) | 59 (38–77) | 45 (13–69) |
Median Operation time, min | 75.5 (34–208) | 64.5 (30–165) | 219 (160–260) | 175 (84–285) | 93 (39–175) |
Median postoperative hospital stay, day | 2 (1–14) | 4 (1–36) | 3.5 (3–6) | 8 (5–26) | 2 (1–3) |
Postoperative complication | Air leak | Pleural | |||
(n = 1) | Effusion | ||||
Wound dehiscence | (n = 1) | ||||
(n = 2) | |||||
Infection (n = 2) | |||||
Bleeding (n = 1) | |||||
Median F/U period, month | 5.1 (0.1–24) | 5.35 (0.8–18.4) | 2.55 (0.3–9.4) | 3.6 (1.5–12.6) | 6.8 (0.7–22.7) |
Early outcome (recurrence) | 10 (5.2%) | NED | NED | NED |