TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yuan, Zu-Yang
AU  - Cheng, Gui-Yu
AU  - Sun, Ke-Lin
AU  - Mao, You-Sheng
AU  - Li, Jian
AU  - Wang, Yong-Gang
AU  - Wang, Da-Li
AU  - Gao, Shu-Geng
AU  - Xue, Qi
AU  - Huang, Jin-Feng
AU  - Mu, Ju-Wei
PY  - 2014
TI  - Comparative study of video-assisted thoracic surgery versus open thymectomy for thymoma in one single center
JF  - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 6, No 6 (June 26, 2014): Journal of Thoracic Disease
Y2  - 2014
KW  - 
N2  - Background: Due to the popularity of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) techniques in clinical, thymoma patients via VATS thymectomy are increasing rapidly. However, compared with open thymectomy, the potential superiorities and defects of VATS thymectomy remain controversial.  Methods: A number of 129 patients who underwent thymectomy of early stage thymoma (Masaoka stage I and stage II) in one single center from January 2007 to September 2013 were selected in this retrospective study. Of those patients, 38 thymoma patients underwent VATS thymectomy (VATS group) and 91 underwent open thymectomy (open group) via either transsternal [44] or transthoracic approach [47] in the same period. The postoperative variables, which included postoperative hospital length of stay (LOS), the intensive care unit (ICU) LOS, the entire resection ratio, the number of thoracic drainage tubes, the quantity of output and duration of drainage, were analyzed. Meanwhile, the operation time and blood loss were considered as intraoperative variables.  Results: All thymoma patients in the analysis included 19 thymoma patients with myasthenia gravis, among which five patients via VATS thymectomy and 14 patients via open thymectomy respectively. There was no death or morbidity due to the surgical procedures perioperatively. The ICU LOS, operation time, entire resection ratio, and the number of chest tubes were not significantly different in two groups. The postoperative hospital LOS of VATS thymectomy was shorter than that of open thymectomy (5.26 versus 8.32 days, P
UR  - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/2414