Table 2.
Characteristics | Sublobectomy (n = 36) |
Lobectomy (n = 25) |
P value |
---|---|---|---|
Surgery time, min | 88.17 (26.49) | 125.40 (41.64) | < 0.001*** |
Intraoperative blood loss, ml | 47.92 (29.36) | 79.20 (47.52) | 0.006** |
Chest tube duration, day | 2 (1-7) | 3 (2-6) | < 0.001*** |
Postoperative hospital stays, day | 4 (2-10) | 6 (4-9) | 0.003** |
Complications, n (%) | 2 (5.56) | 2 (8) | 1.000 |
Pulmonary infection | 0 | 1 | 0.410 |
Prolonged air leak | 2 | 0 | 0.508 |
Atelectasis | 1 | 1 | 1.000 |
Follow-up time, months | 28.5 (7-95) | 38.28 (2-92) | 0.351 |
The data was presented as mean (SD) or median (range)
**P < 0.01
***P < 0.001. Continuous variables were compared using Student’s t test and categorical variables using chi-squared test