Trans-sternotomy versus video-assisted thoracic surgery for early-stage thymoma patients: a meta-analysis | Zendy

Aizemaiti Rusidanmu | Zendy; Mingyang Feng | Zendy; Jinming Xu | Zendy; Luming Wang | Zendy; Cheng He | Zendy; Jian Hu | Zendy

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Trans-sternotomy versus video-assisted thoracic surgery for early-stage thymoma patients: a meta-analysis

Author(s) -

Aizemaiti Rusidanmu,

Mingyang Feng,

Jinming Xu,

Luming Wang,

Cheng He,

Jian Hu

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

gland surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.643

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 2227-8575

pISSN - 2227-684X

DOI - 10.21037/gs.2020.03.10

Subject(s) - medicine , thymoma , thymectomy , cardiothoracic surgery , stage (stratigraphy) , surgery , subgroup analysis , cochrane library , video assisted thoracoscopic surgery , median sternotomy , meta analysis , myasthenia gravis , paleontology , biology

Over the years, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) thymectomy has progressively replaced trans-sternotomy (TS) in early-stage thymoma (Masaoka stage I and stage II). This meta-analysis aimed to confirm the differences in the efficacies of VATS and TS approaches in early-stage thymoma patients.

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