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. 2014 Feb 28;21(1):18–23. doi: 10.5761/atcs.oa.13-00312

Table 1.

Intraoperative blood loss in surgery for lung cancer by procedure

Procedure Patient number IBL (mL, mean ± SD) p valuea
Lobectomy 1016 445 ± 449  
Sublobar resection 174 88 ± 166  
Pneumonectomy 106 908 ± 790  
Combined resection 40 1171 ± 810 <0.0001
Total 1336 457 ± 524

a: Kruskal-Wallis test. IBL: intraoperative blood loss; SD: standard deviation