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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 May 28;150(3):613–619.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.05.057

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

Time to symptom recovery to mild severity after thoracic surgery. A, Kaplan–Meier curves for the 5 most-severe symptoms overall. B, Kaplan–Meier curves for difference in pain recovery between standard open thoracotomy and VATS lobectomy (P = .022). “Return to mild pain” was defined as a report of MDASI pain scores ≤3 (none or mild) at 2 contiguous measurements. VATS, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. See Supplemental Tables S2 and S3 for additional data related to Figures 2A and 2B, respectively, on the number of patients with moderate to severe symptoms and the probability of recovery at given time points during the study.