No Adverse Outcomes of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Resection of cT2 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer during the Learning Curve Period.

Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · 2017 · PMC5548204 · PMID 28795033

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The total number of lymph nodes (nodes that were dissected during the operation and sent separately from the specimen, counted as 1 per lymph node station due to en bloc resection and the nodes that were dissected from the specimen during the grossing process in the pathological workup) tended to be lower in VATS patients (8.1±2.3 versus 9.8±4.1) but this trend failed to reach statistical significance.

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