Table 1. Clinical characteristics of patients who underwent robotic or thoracoscopic pulmonary anatomic resection.
| Characteristics | All patients | Propensity-matched patients | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RATS (n=71) | VATS (n=113) | P | RATS (n=69) | VATS (n=69) | P | ||
| Age | 58.4±8.8 | 60.0±9.8 | 0.250 | 58.6±8.8 | 59.9±9.7 | 0.391 | |
| Male:female | 26:45 | 49:64 | 0.365 | 26:43 | 22:47 | 0.474 | |
| Operative procedure | 0.003 | 1 | |||||
| Lobectomy | 64 | 81 | 62 | 62 | |||
| Segmentectomy | 7 | 32 | 7 | 7 | |||
| Tumor size | 1.65±0.90 | 2.06±1.31 | 0.013 | 1.65±0.91 | 1.86±1.19 | 0.239 | |
| Pathologic stage | 0.691 | 0.991 | |||||
| IA | 65 | 87 | 65 | 58 | |||
| IB | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | |||
| IIA | 1 | 10 | 1 | 6 | |||
| IIIA | 3 | 9 | 3 | 4 | |||
Data are presented as mean ± SD or number. RATS, robotic-assisted thoracic surgery; VATS, video-assisted thoracic surgery.