- Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Global Health and Surgery
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases
- Multiple and Secondary Primary Cancers
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
University of Padua
2021
University of L'Aquila
2019
This study compares the uniportal with 3-portal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) by examining data collected in Italian VATS Group Database. The primary end point was early postoperative pain; secondary points were intraoperative and complications, surgical time, number of dissected lymph nodes length stay.This an observational, retrospective, cohort, multicentre on 49 units. Inclusion criteria clinical stage I-II non-small-cell lung cancer, or lobectomy R0 resection. Exclusion cT3...
Only few studies compared the surgical morbidity and mortality of thoracoscopic segmentectomy versus lobectomy for non-small-cell lung cancer, in particular, by relating segmental resections with corresponding anatomical lobes.We enrolled a total 7487 patients who underwent VATS (7269) or (218) from January 2014 to July 2019. A propensity score matching approach was used account potential confounding factors between 2 groups. After matching, 349 lobectomies 208 segmentectomies were included...