Table 2.
Surgical characteristics, histological type, and survival postoperative.
| Variable | Elderly (n Patients, %) |
Control (n Patients, %) |
p Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resektion Type | p = 0.121 | ||
| Pneumonectomy | 36 (26.7%) | 141 (37.6%) | |
| Bilobectomy | 8 (5.9%) | 25 (6.7%) | |
| Lobectomy | 86 (63.7%) | 198 (52.8%) | |
| Segmentectomy | 5 (3.7%) | 11 (2.9%) | |
| Tumor differentiation | p = 0.014 | ||
| High | 17 (12.6%) | 24 (6.4%) | |
| Middle | 67 (49.6%) | 160 (42.7%) | |
| Low | 40 (29.6%) | 163 (43.5%) | |
| Undifferent | 11 (8.1%) | 28 (7.5%) | |
| Tumor histology | p = 0.037 | ||
| SCC | 80 (59.3%) | 193 (51.5%) | |
| Adenocarcinoma | 34 (25.2%) | 139 (37.1%) | |
| Large cell carcinoma | 14 (10.4%) | 35 (9.3%) | |
| other | 7 (5.2%) | 8 (2.1%) | |
| Stage | p = 0.002 | ||
| I | 75 (55.6%) | 136 (36.6%) | |
| II | 30 (22.2%) | 112 (29.9%) | |
| III | 26 (19.3%) | 109 (29.1%) | |
| IV | 4 (3.0%) | 18 (4.8%) | |
| N-Status | p = 0.002 | ||
| N0–1 | 122 (90.4%) | 294 (78.4%) | |
| N2 | 13 (9.6%) | 81 (21.6%) | |
| 30-day mortality | 7 (5.2%) | 10 (2.7%) | p = 0.168 |
| Survival | p = 0.57 | ||
| 3-y-s | 46% | 48% | |
| 5-y-s | 20.4% | 25% | |
| Mean (months) | 43.469 | 45.298 | |
| Survival pro stage (mean survival in months) | |||
| Stage I | 43.317 | 43.317 | p = 0.5 |
| Stage II | 46.442 | 41.089 | p = 0.6 |
| Stage III | 39.209 | 39.912 | p = 0.6 |