ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2018
Video-assisted thoracic surgery for thymoma: long-term follow-up results and prognostic factors-single-center experience of 150 cases.
Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Surgical outcomes of 215 patients with thymic epithelial tumors: A single-center experience.Thoracic cancer · 2020Trial
- Minimally invasive thymectomy for patients with thymoma: surgical, oncological and neurological outcomes.Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2025Article
- Long-term survival and prognosis after surgical treatment of patients with thymic carcinoma: a retrospective analysis.Journal of thoracic disease · 2024Article
- Long-term outcomes of robot versus video-assisted thymectomy for thymic epithelial tumors: a propensity matched analysis.BMC surgery · 2024Article
- Long term outcomes from the early days of minimally invasive thymoma surgery for Myasthenia Gravis patients: a follow-up of 19 years.Frontiers in surgery · 2024Article
- Long-term prognosis in patients with thymoma combined with myasthenia gravis: a propensity score-matching analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Postoperative clinical outcomes of patients with thymic epithelial tumors after over-3-year follow-up at a single-center.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2023Article
- Nomogram based on TNM stage to predict the prognosis of thymic epithelial tumors (TETs) patients undergoing extended thymectomy.Frontiers in surgery · 2023Article
- Comparing the safety and efficacy of thoracoscopic surgery and thoracotomy for thymoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Gland surgery · 2021Article
- Development of a competing risk nomogram for the prediction of cause-specific mortality in patients with thymoma: a population-based analysis.Journal of thoracic disease · 2021Article
- Simultaneous uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery for pulmonary nodules and synchronous mediastinal lesions.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2021Article
- lncRNAs classifier to accurately predict the recurrence of thymic epithelial tumors.Thoracic cancer · 2020Article
- Surgical effect and prognostic factors of myasthenia gravis with thymomas.Thoracic cancer · 2020Article
- Trans-sternotomy versus video-assisted thoracic surgery for early-stage thymoma patients: a meta-analysis.Gland surgery · 2020Article
- Nomogram to predict thymoma prognosis: A population-based study of 1312 cases.Thoracic cancer · 2019Article
- Thymic papillary adenocarcinoma coexisting with type A thymoma: A case report.International journal of surgery case reports · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThe use of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) in the treatment of thymoma is becoming more and more common. The aim of this study was to evaluate safety and effectiveness of thoracoscopic treatment of thymoma and, more importantly, to report long-term follow-up results of a large single-center cohort.
methodsA retrospective review of a prospective database was performed. In total, 150 patients who underwent VATS resection for thymoma at Peking University People's Hospital from April 2001 to November 2014 were retrospectively reviewed.
resultsAverage operation time was 140.1±54.2 min, median blood loss was 50 mL (range, 10-700 mL), median post-operative drainage time was 3 days (range, 1-11 days), and median length of post-op stay was 5 days (range, 2-20 days); 134 patients (89.3%) were followed up successfully. Median follow-up was 59.5 months (range, 2-187 months). Five- and 10-year recurrence free survival (RFS) rates of entire group were 96.5% and 94.4%, respectively; 5- and 10-year RFS rates for Masaoka stages I + II were 98.1% and 98.1%, respectively; 5- and 6-year RFS rates for Masaoka stage III were 90% and 60%, respectively. One case of recurrence in five Masaoka stage IV patients was observed, and 4-year RFS was 80%. Multivariable analysis indicated that recurrence tended to occur in Masaoka stages III + IV patients (P=0.037, HR =12.69, 95% CI: 1.17-138.22) and older patients had a lower risk of recurrence (P=0.029, HR =0.87, 95% CI: 0.77-0.99). Myasthenia gravis (MG) presented in 44 patients (29.3%), of which 36 patients (81.8%) were followed up. Nine patients achieved complete remission, and 19 patients had symptom improvement after surgery. Overall response rate of MG was 77.8% (28/36).
conclusionsVATS was a safe and effective procedure for treatment of thymomas with satisfactory prognosis. MG with thymoma treated by VATS had comparable neurological outcome to that associated with the trans-sternal approach.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.