1. Does Thoracoscopic Surgery Decrease the Morbidity of Combined Lung and Chest Wall Resection? 
Mark W. Hennon, MD, Elisabeth U. Dexter, MD, Miriam Huang, MD, John Kane, MD, Chukwumere Nwogu, MD, PhD, Anthony Picone, MD, Sai Yendamuri, MBBS, Todd L. Demmy, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 99, Issue 6, Pages (June 2015)
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2. Fig 1
Histogram of hospital stay for video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and standard (Open) thoracotomy patients treated for non-small cell lung carcinoma. X’s indicate deaths. The VATS cases are clustered at less than 10 days.
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3. Fig 2
Histogram showing age range for video-assisted thoracic surgery patients (VATS) and standard (Open) thoracotomy patients treated for non-small cell lung carcinoma, and age range for patients with early mortality after undergoing VATS (Death VATS) and standard thoracotomy (Death Open).
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4. Fig 3
Overall survival of patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma, treated with anatomic lung resection with en bloc chest wall resection by VATS (dashed line, n = 15) compared with those treated by thoracotomy (Open); (solid line, n = 16, difference between curves p = 0.88).
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