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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 5.

Open and MIS approaches for non-thymoma

Non-Thymoma
Variable Overall (n=179) Open (n=51) MIS (n=128) P value

Hospital stay 2.8 ± 3.6 4.7 ± 4.5 2.1 ± 2.9 <0.001
Operative time 180.6 ± 90.7 215.2 ± 99.6 166.5 ± 82.9 0.01
Intensive care unit stay 0.5 ± 2.1 1.1 ± 3.1 0.2 ± 1.4 <0.001