Extended Pleurectomy and Decortication for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Is an Effective and Safe Cytoreductive Surgery in the Elderly Trevor Williams, MD, MPH, Hadi Duraid, MD, Sydeaka Watson, PhD, Amy Durkin, PA-C, Kristy Todd, PA-C, Hedy L. Kindler, MD, Wickii T. Vigneswaran, MD, MBA The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 100, Issue 5, Pages 1868-1874 (November 2015) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.04.151 Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier survival curves for patients 70 years and older (blue dashed line) and those younger than 70 years (green solid line). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 100, 1868-1874DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.04.151) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 The Kaplan-Meier survival curves for patients stratified by (A) epithelioid histology (pure, blue dashed line; mixed, green solid line), (B) adjuvant chemotherapy (with, blue dashed line; none, green solid line), (C) T stage (T1 and T2, green solid line; T3 and T4, blue dashed line), and (D) World Health Organization performance stage (PS 0, green solid line; PS 1 and 2, blue dashed line). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 100, 1868-1874DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.04.151) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Kaplan-Meier survival curves stratified by node-positive (N1–N3, blue dashed line) and node-negative (N0, green solid line) status. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 100, 1868-1874DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.04.151) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 4 Kaplan-Meier survival curves stratified by age and performance status. (Green: age <70 yrs; pre-PS 0, solid line; pre-PS 1, dashed line. Blue: age 70+ yrs; pre-PS 0, long dashed line; pre-PS 1, short dashed line.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 100, 1868-1874DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.04.151) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions