Open AccessRobot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus thoracotomy for c-N2 stage NSCLC: short-term outcomes of a randomized trial
Author(s) -
Jia Huang,
Chongwu Li,
Hecheng Li,
Fanzhen Lv,
Long Jiang,
Lin Hao,
Peiji Lu,
Qingquan Luo,
Wei Xü
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
translational lung cancer research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.474
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 2226-4477
pISSN - 2218-6751
DOI - 10.21037/tlcr.2019.11.31
Subject(s) - medicine , thoracotomy , surgery , lung cancer , dissection (medical) , randomized controlled trial , stage (stratigraphy) , lymph node , mediastinum , mediastinal lymph node , video assisted thoracoscopic surgery , cancer , metastasis , paleontology , biology
Safety and short-term efficacy of robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have been previously proven; however, RATS for N2 stage NSCLC was barely evaluated. The aim of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to explore the short-term outcome of RATS for cN2 stage NSCLC.