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. 2008 May 27;134(12):1289–1295. doi: 10.1007/s00432-008-0421-3

Table 3.

Complications in patients with different tumor size and method of lymphadenectomy

Variables ≤2 cm P value >2 cm P value
LA (n = 14) LS (n = 20) LA (n = 28) LS (n = 43)
Arrhythmia 1 1 2 2
Pneumonia or atelectasis 1 1 2 1
Prolonged air leak (>7 days) 1 0 0 1
Recurrent laryngeal nerve leision 1 0 1 1
Chylothorax 0 0 1 0
Myocardial infarction 0 0 1 0
Total 4 (28.6%) 2 (10.0%) 0.202 7 (25.0%) 5 (11.6%) 0.252

LA radical systematic mediastinal lymphadenectomy, LS lymph node sampling