Table 2. Summary of surgical details and baseline characteristics of patients who underwent robotic video-assisted thoracic surgery.
| Author | Age | Gender (Male) | Primary NSCLC | Staging^ | Resection type |
Lymph nodes |
Access | Port | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LR | BR | PR | SR | WR | Stations | Number | |||||||
| Park | 66 [30-87] | 63% | 325/325 | cI | 324 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 [2-8] | NR | < 8 cm | 3 or 4 |
| Cerfolio | 67 [21-87] | 45% | 168/168 | NR | 106 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 26 | 8 | 17 | >15 mm | 4 or 5 |
| Dylewski | 68 [20-92] | 45% | 125/200 | cIA | 160* | 4 | 1 | 35 | 0 | 5 [4-8] | NR | 2-4 cm | 4 |
| Jang | 64±10 | 58% | 40/40 | cI | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 [2-10] | 22 [7-45] | 2-5 cm | 3 |
| Augustin | 65 [47-82] | 54% | 24/26 | cI | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NR | NR | 5-7 cm | 3 |
| Fortes | 70 [51-86] | 48% | 16/23 | cI-II | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 [2-50] | 2-3 cm | 3 or 4 |
| Giulianotti | 66 [16-78] | 50% | 24/38 | cI-II | 32 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | NR | 8 [1-18] | 4-5 cm | 3 or 4 |
| Gharagozloo | 65±8 | 42% | 100/100 | cI-II | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4R; 5L | 12 ± 3 | 2-3 cm | 3 or 4 |
| Anderson | 67 [36-86] | 52% | 19/21 | cI | 14 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | NR | 16 [2-58] | 3-4 cm | 4 or 5 |
*Includes 154 lobectomies, 3 sleeve lobectomies and 3 en bloc resection with lobectomies; ^Majority of patients; NR, Not reported. Resections types: LR, Lobectomy; BR, Bilobectomy; PR, Pneumonectomy; SR, Segmentectomy; WR, Wedge resection; R, Right-sided disease; L, Left-sided disease