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. 2015 Nov 12;63(12):670–701. doi: 10.1007/s11748-015-0590-3

Table 12

2. Primary malignant pulmonary tumor

Cases 30 day mortality Hospital mortality By VATS
Hospital After discharge
2. Primary malignant pulmonary tumor 37,370 113 (0.3) 11 (0.03) 227 (0.6)
Lung cancer 37,008 112 (0.3) 11 (0.03) 225 (0.6) 26,213
 Adenocarcinoma 25,555 54 (0.2) 4 (0.02) 97 (0.4)
 Squamous cell carcinoma 7365 41 (0.6) 6 (0.08) 89 (1.2)
 Large cell carcinoma 908 6 (0.7) 1 10 (1.1)
 (LCNEC) 517 3 (0.6) 1 6 (1.2)
 Small cell carcinoma 577 3 (0.5) 0 5 (0.9)
 Adenosquamous carcinoma 586 1 (0.2) 0 7 (1.2)
 Carcinoma with pleomorphic, sarcomatoid or sarcomatous elements 496 5 (1.0) 0 11 (2.2)
 Carcinoid 248 0 0 0
 Carcinomas of salivary-gland type 45 0 0 0
 Unclassified 65 0 0 0
 Multiple lung cancer 1015 1 (0.1) 0 3 (0.3)
 Others 148 1 (0.7) 0 3 (2.0)
 Wedge resection 4954 8 (0.2) 1 13 (0.3) 4270
 Segmental excision 3817 8 (0.2) 0 15 (0.4) 2800
 (Sleeve segmental excision) 13 0 0 0 3
 Lobectomy 27,469 84 (0.3) 9 (0.03) 173 (0.6) 18,925
 (Sleeve lobectomy) 449 4 (0.9) 1 (0.2) 5 (1.1) 54
 Pneumonectomy 559 10 (1.8) 1 20 (3.6) 82
 (Sleeve pneumonectomy) 10 0 0 0 1
 Other bronchoplasty 6 0 0 0 0
 Pleuropneumonectomy 6 0 0 0 0
Others 215 2 (0.9) 0 3 (1.4) 136
Sarcoma 28 0 0 1 (3.6)
AAH 165 0 0 0
Others 169 0 0 1 (0.6)

Values in parenthesis represent mortality %