December 1, 2019Translational Lung Cancer ResearchOpen Access

Robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus thoracotomy for c-N2 stage NSCLC: short-term outcomes of a randomized trial

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Abstract

Present study proves that the feasibility and safety of RATS lobectomy to treat patients with cN2 stage NSCLC, and it should be superior to thoracotomy due to lesser intraoperative blood loss.

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Huang et al. (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dd547c2b3cda120c40c4b4 https://doi.org/10.21037/tlcr.2019.11.31

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Abstract

Present study proves that the feasibility and safety of RATS lobectomy to treat patients with cN2 stage NSCLC, and it should be superior to thoracotomy due to lesser intraoperative blood loss.