Table 1.

Patient demographic characteristics stratified by the type of surgical operation performed by r-VATS

S.No	Type of surgical operations	Cases (n = 142)	Patient characteristics
			Mean Age (years)	Gender (Male/Female; n)
			(Mean ± SD)
1	Lobectomy	66	60.67 ± 8.20	Male = 47(71.21%)
				Female = 19(28.79%)
2	Wedge resection	15	60.60 ± 11.89	Male = 13(86.67%)
				Female = 2(13.33%)
3	Thymectomy	22	40.27 ± 14.55	Male = 6(27.27%)
				Female = 16(72.73%)
4	Mediastinal tumor resection	30	47.43 ± 16.35	Male = 12(40%)
				Female = 18(60%)
5	Pneumonectomy	4	59 ± 6.38	Male = 4(100%)
6	Transthoracic esophagectomy	1	54	Male = 1(100%)
7	Esophageal tumor resection/ Esophageal diverticulum repair	2	53 ± 32.53	Male = 1(50%)
				Female = 1(50%)
8	Diaphragm plication	1	61	Male = 1(100%)
9	Mediastinal tumor resection plus thymectomy	1	40	Female = 1(100%)