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. 2021 Jul 1;8:666158. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2021.666158

Table 2.

Histopathological and staging features in the Robotic, VATS, and Thoracotomy groups.

Open (n = 158) VATS (n = 110) RATS (n = 237) All Patients (n = 505) P-value
Histology (n, %) 0.5
Adenocarcinoma 114 (72.1) 78 (70.9) 187 (78.9) 379 (75.0)
Squamous cell carcinoma 23 (14.6) 19 (17.3) 36 (15.2) 78 (15.4)
Neuroendocrine tumors 21 (13.3) 13 (11.8) 14 (5.9) 48 (9.6)
pT (n, %) 0.3
1a 35 (22.2) 12 (10.9) 22 (9.3) 69 (13.7)
1b 26 (16.5) 23 (20.9) 65 (27.4) 114 (22.6)
1c 1 (0.6) 20 (18.2) 25 (10.5) 46 (9.1)
2a 57 (36.1) 38 (34.5) 94 (39.7) 189 (37.4)
2b 26 (16.5) 6 (5.5) 20 (8.4) 52 (10.3)
3 12 (7.6) 9 (8.2) 11 (4.6) 22 (4.3)
pN (n, %) 0.1
N0 118 (74.7) 95 (86.4) 187 (78.9) 399 (79.0)
N1 15 (9.5) 8 (7.3) 24 (10.1) 48 (9.5)
N2 25 (15.8) 7 (6.4) 26 (11.0) 58 (11.5)