Lymph Node Evaluation Achieved by Open Lobectomy Compared With Thoracoscopic Lobectomy for N0 Lung Cancer Robert E. Merritt, MD, Chuong D. Hoang, MD, Joseph B. Shrager, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 96, Issue 4, Pages 1171-1177 (October 2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.05.044 Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier survival curve comparing the overall survival rates for patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS, solid line) lobectomy and open lobectomy for clinical N0 lung carcinoma (OPEN, dotted line). The overall 3-year survival was 89.9% for the VATS lobectomy group compared with 84.7% for the open lobectomy group (log-rank test, p = 0.6). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 96, 1171-1177DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.05.044) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions