Table 2. Structure of the ESTS chest wall database.

Preoperative

General patients’ characteristics

Diagnosis

Neoadjuvant chemo/radiotherapy

How defect affects patients (for congenital chest wall diseases)

Lung function and blood gas analysis

Comorbidities

Intraoperative

Chest wall subgroup (chest wall, costal cartilage, chest wall incision, reconstruction, rib, thoracoplasty)

Type of procedure

Reconstruction (technique and material)

Margins

Analgesia (epidural, localanesthetic, pericostal block)

Postoperative

Complication

Outcome at discharge, at 30 and 90 days

Length of hospital stay

Patients satisfaction at discharge

Length of epidural analgesia

Time to return to work

Follow up

Dead/alive

For Nuss procedures: (I) bar allergic reaction; (II) bar displacement and degree of displacement

Required reoperations

Wound infections

For rib fixation/chest wall reconstruction: reaction to different materials (allogenic/biologic better than artificial?)

Chronic pain syndrome

Other long-time complication

ESTS, European Society of Thoracic Surgery.