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. 2016 Jul 29;14:201. doi: 10.1186/s12957-016-0940-3

Table 2.

Details of surgical techniques

All patients (n = 524) Group HM + PM (n = 106) Group PM (n = 418) P value
No. (%) No. (%) No. (%)
Extent of PM 0.35
 Precision excision 20 (3.8) 5 (4.7) 15 (3.6)
 Wedge resection 368 (70.2) 77 (72.6) 291 (69.6)
 Segmentectomy 37 (7.1) 4 (3.8) 33 (7.9)
 Lobectomy 93 (17.8) 18 (17) 75 (17.9)
 Bilobectomy 4 (0.8) 1 (0.9) 3 (0.7)
 Sleeve resectiona 2 (0.4) 1 (0.9) 1 (0.2)
Extent of HM
 Chemotherapy 6 (5.7)
 RFA or TACE 23 (21.7)
 Wedge resection or tumorectomy 11 (10.4)
 Segmentectomy 26 (24.5)
 Lobectomy 32 (30.2)
 Extended hemihepatectomy 8 (7.5)
Thoracoscopic surgery 298 (56.9) 61 (57.6) 237 (56.7) 0.875
Mediastinal LND 140 (26.7) 28 (26.4) 112 (26.8) 0.937

PM pulmonary metastasectomy, HM hepatic metastasectomy, RFA radiofrequency ablation, TACE transarterial chemoembolization, LND lymph node dissection

aSleeve resection included one sleeve lobectomy and one sleeve bilobectomy