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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2020 Jul 5;168(4):737–742. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2020.04.037

Table 4.

Minimally Invasive Cohort Outcomes

Variable Minimum (n=151) VATS (n=97) Robotic (n=54) P value
Hospital stay (days) 2.0 ± 2.6 2.4 ± 3.2 1.3 ± 0.82 0.01
Operative time (min) 170.7 ± 82.0 161.1 ± 82.5 187.5 ± 78.3 0.06
ICU stay (days) 0.2 ± 1.3 0.3 ± 1.6 0.1 ± 0.41 0.23
Post-op complication
  Re-operation 2 (1%) 2 (2%) 0 0.29
  Arrhythmia 5 (35) 5 (5%) 0 0.82
  Surgical site infection 1 (1%) 1 (1%) 0 0.45
  Neurological deficit 0 0 0 1.00
  Acute kidney injury 0 0 0 1
  30 Day Readmission 8 (5%) 1 1%) 7 (13%) <0.001
Total cost 14,504± 10,845 14,743 ± 13,113 14,075 ± 4,439 0.71
Non Thymoma 128 (85%) 85 (88%) 43 (80%) 0.28
Thymoma 23 (15%) 12 (12%) 11 (20%)
WHO classification
A 4 (3%) 1 (1%) 3 (6%) 0.51
AB 5 (3%) 5 (5%) 0 0.01
B1 8 (5%) 2 (2%) 6 (11%) 0.14
B2 4 (3%) 3 (3%) 1 (2%) 0.20
B3 2 (1%) 1 (1%) 1 (2%) 0.94
C 0 0 0 1.00
R0 resection 23 (1005) 12 (100%) 11 (100%) 1.00
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Non Thymoma pathologies included: Thymic cyst, normal thymus, thymic hyperplasia