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Table 1 Patient characteristics before and after propensity score matching

From: One-stage VATS surgery for synchronous bilateral lung lesion: a safe and feasible procedure

Characteristics

Pre-match

Post-match

One-stage

Two-stage

p value

One-stage

Two-stage

p value

Gender

  

0.9118

  

0.3655

 Female

56

22

 

16

13

 

 Male

53

20

 

20

10

 

Age

57.85 ± 8.21

55.55 ± 14.25

0.2169

56.42 ± 9.35

54.78 ± 16.55

0.669

Smoke*

  

0.5568

  

0.5555

 Yes

33

10

 

12

6

 

 No

76

32

 

24

17

 

Pulmonary function***

      

 FEV1 (L)

2.64 ± 0.57

2.54 ± 0.58

0.3601

   

 FEV1/FVC

76.96% ± 4.87%

75.13% ± 5.37%

0.0849

   

Comorbidity

  

0.0257

  

0.8162

 Yes

37

23

 

12

7

 

 No

72

19

 

24

16

 

Post-surgery days

8.72 ± 3.36

8.4 ± 2.64

0.5765

8.67 ± 2.68

8.46 ± 2.92

0.7711

Chest tube days

5.64 ± 2.42

5.56 ± 2.05

0.8452

5.47 ± 2.20

5.46 ± 1.95

0.9772

Surgery

  

0.001106

  

0.798**

 L + L

4

7

 

3

3

 

 SL + L

43

23

 

17

9

 

 SL + SL

62

12

 

16

11

 

Lymph node dissection

  

0.07427

  

0.9036*

 Systematic

67

34

 

27

16

 

 Sampling

11

2

 

3

2

 

 None

31

6

 

6

25

 

Pathology of lesions

  

0.021

   

 Pre-cancerous

7

8

    

 Cancer

160

62

    

 Benign

79

20

    

Post-operative complications

  

0.8669

  

0.3627

 Yes

33

14

 

10

14

 

 No

76

28

 

26

9

 

Complication type

  

   

 Hydrothorax (thoracentesis)

15

6

 

4

1

0.3635*

 Bronchoscopic sputum suction

3

2

 

3

2

 

 Other

14

6

 

3

6

 
  1. Comorbidity: including diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and other diseases before surgery
  2. L Lobectomy, SL  Sub-lobectomy, FEV1 Forced expiratory volume for the first second, FVC Forced vital capacity
  3. *Past smokers are categorized as ‘yes’ in smoking status, as many patients claimed to be past smokers actually quit smoking on the day when diagnosed
  4. **Fisher exact test
  5. ***In two-stage surgery, pulmonary function data are results before the first surgery