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Impact of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery on Benign Resections for Solitary Pulmonary Nodules  Elbert Kuo, MD, MPH, Ankit Bharat, MD, Nicholas Bontumasi,

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1 Impact of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery on Benign Resections for Solitary Pulmonary Nodules 
Elbert Kuo, MD, MPH, Ankit Bharat, MD, Nicholas Bontumasi, BS, Czarina Sanchez, BS, Jennifer Bell Zoole, BS, G. Alexander Patterson, MD, Bryan F. Meyers, MD, MPH  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 93, Issue 1, Pages (January 2012) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2012 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Percentage of cases performed by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) from 1995 to 2009 for (A) wedge resections and (B) lobectomies. Actual number of cases represented by numbers on top of columns. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2012 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 (A) Benign resection rate from 1995 to (B) Benign resection rate for wedge resections and lobectomies between 2006 and Actual number of cases represented by numbers on top of columns. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2012 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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