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VATS versus Open Lobectomy in 6000 patients in the Medicare database. [1]

Submitted by joeldunning [2] on Sun, 2014-10-12 05:35

This is a fabulous paper comparing VATS versus open lobectomy. The 5 year survival is the same, the hospital stay is 2 days less and the in hospital mortality is slightly lower 

Source name: 
BMJ
Resource link: 
http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/349/bmj.g5575.full.pdf [3]
Subspecialty(ies): 
Thoracic [4]
Author(s): 
Subroto Paul,, Abby J Isaacs, Tom Treasure, Nasser K Altork, Art Sedrakyan
Source URL:https://spb-cts.freelock.com/jans/vats-versus-open-lobectomy-6000-patients-medicare-database

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[1] https://spb-cts.freelock.com/jans/vats-versus-open-lobectomy-6000-patients-medicare-database [2] https://spb-cts.freelock.com/home/joeldunning [3] http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/349/bmj.g5575.full.pdf [4] https://spb-cts.freelock.com/categories/thoracic