Table 3. Postoperative diagnosis between two groups.
| Awake VATS (n=145) | VATS (n=148) | p | |||
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Postoperative diagnosis | |||||
| Non-specific pleuritis | 88 | 60,7 | 72 | 48,6 | |
| Malign disease | 36 | 24,8 | 51 | 34,4 | |
| Tuberculosis | 18 | 12,4 | 19 | 12,8 | 0,171 |
| Granulomatous disease | 3 | 2,1 | 5 | 3,4 | |
| Suspicious for malignancy | - | - | 1 | 0,6 | |
| VATS: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. | |||||