VATS Lobectomy Has Better Perioperative Outcomes Than Open Lobectomy: CALGB 31001, an Ancillary Analysis of CALGB 140202 (Alliance) Chukwumere E. Nwogu, MD, PhD, Jonathan D’Cunha, MD, PhD, Herbert Pang, PhD, Lin Gu, MS, Xiaofei Wang, PhD, William G. Richards, PhD, Linda J. Veit, MPH, Todd L. Demmy, MD, David J. Sugarbaker, MD, Leslie J. Kohman, MD, Scott J. Swanson, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 99, Issue 2, Pages 399-405 (February 2015) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.09.018 Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier plot of disease-free survival from matched data for open lobectomy (black line) versus video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS; red line). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 99, 399-405DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.09.018) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier plot of overall survival from matched data for open lobectomy (black line) versus video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS; red line). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 99, 399-405DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.09.018) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions