Table 2.

Relationships among neonates, symptoms, surgical procedures, and frequency of deformities

	n (%)	Thoracotomy (n = 25)	Thoracoscopy (n = 49)	P valuea
Neonates that underwent lung resection	22	10	12	0.19
Frequency of deformities	14 (64)	10 (100)*	4 (33)*	0.0017*
Symptomatic patients that underwent lung resection	15	10	5	0.0049
Frequency of deformities	11 (73)	10 (100)**	1 (20)**	0.0037**
Symptomatic neonates that underwent lung resection	13	10	3	0.00046
Frequency of deformities	11 (85)	10 (100)***	1 (33)***	0.039***

* represents incidence rates in neonates that underwent lung resection; ** represents incidence rates in symptomatic patients that underwent lung resection; *** represents incidence rates in symptomatic neonates that underwent lung resection

^aFisher’s exact test