Table 2.

Comparison of Perioperative Data between Matched VAMIE and RAMIE Groups.

	VAMIE (n=592)	RAMIE (n=148)	p
Surgical Duration	313 [280;360]	345 [306;390]	<0.001
Position of anastomosis:			<0.001
Neck	571 (96.5%)	131 (88.5%)
Intrathoracic	21 (3.55%)	17 (11.5%)
Intraoperative Blood Loss (ml)	100 [50.0;100]	100 [50.0;100]	0.846
Lymph Node Dissection Count	33.0 [25.0;42.0]	35.5 [28.0;46.2]	0.002
RLN Lymph Nodes	3.00 [3.00;4.00]	3.00 [2.0;4.00]	0.047
Mediastinal Lymph Nodes	21.5 [13.0;30.0]	24.0 [17.0;35.2]	0.005
Abdominal Lymph Nodes	8.00 [7.00;9.00]	7.00 [5.00;11.0]	0.135
Vascular invasion (+), n (%)	106 (17.9%)	29 (19.6%)	0.721
Nerve infiltration (+), n (%)	159 (26.9%)	41 (27.7%)	0.918
Thoracic Extubation Time	8.00 [7.00;11.2]	8.00 [6.00;9.00]	<0.001
Neck Extubation Time	6.00 [4.00;8.00]	5.00 [4.00;6.00]	<0.001
Hospitalization days (day)	10.0 [8.00;14.0]	9.00 [8.00;13.0]	0.003
Postoperative Transfused Patients, n (%)	18 (3.04%)	5 (3.38%)	0.793

RLN, Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve.