Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Thymectomy Versus Sternotomy Thymectomy in Patients With Thymoma Hiroyuki Agatsuma, MD, Kazuo Yoshida, MD, PhD, Ichiro Yoshino, MD, PhD, Meinoshin Okumura, MD, PhD, Masahiko Higashiyama, MD, PhD, Kenji Suzuki, MD, PhD, Masanori Tsuchida, MD, PhD, Jitsuo Usuda, MD, PhD, Hiroshi Niwa, MD, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 104, Issue 3, Pages 1047-1053 (September 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.03.054 Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) sternotomy approach versus sternotomy for thymectomy over the duration of the study in multiple institutions participating in the Japanese Association for Research on the Thymus database. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 104, 1047-1053DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.03.054) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 (A) Kaplan-Meier plot illustrating overall survival (OS) stratified by propensity score matched group (video-assisted thoracoscopic sternotomy [VATS] vs sternotomy [ST]). Time from thymectomy (years) plotted on the x-axis. (B) Kaplan-Meier plot illustrating recurrence-free survival (RFS) stratified by propensity score matched group (VATS vs sternotomy). Time from thymectomy (years) plotted on the x-axis. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 104, 1047-1053DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.03.054) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions