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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 6.

Open and MIS approaches for Thymoma

Thymoma
Variable Overall (n=41) Open (n=18) MIS (n=23) P value

Hospital stay 3.0 ± 2.2 5.0 ± 2.0 1.5 ± 0.8 <0.001
Operative time 216.2 ± 89.3 245.0 ± 99.6 193.0 ± 72.9 0.03
Intensive care unit stay 0.6 ± 1.5 1.2 ± 1.9 0.2 ± 1.0 0.07