ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2019
Impact of complex segmentectomies by video-assisted thoracic surgery on peri-operative outcomes.
Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 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
13 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of thoracoscopic segmental lung resection versus wedge on early post-operative recovery and short-term prognosis in elderly patients with early non-small cell lung cancer: A retrospective non-randomised controlled cohort study.Journal of minimal access surgery · 2026Article
- Complex versus simple segmentectomy in non-small cell lung cancer: a single-center, retrospective study.General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2026Article
- Upfront uniportal anatomical segmentectomy: a propensity score-matched analysis on the early postoperative outcomes of complex and simple resections.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Article
- Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic isolated S4 segmentectomy of left upper lobe: a stepwise surgical technique.Journal of visualized surgery · 2026Article
- Preoperative Factors Associated with Surgical Complexity and Postoperative Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Robotic Anatomical Segmentectomy.Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2025Article
- Outcomes After VATS Single Versus Multiple Segmentectomy for cT1N0 Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.Cancers · 2025Article
- Complex lung segmentectomies: current state of art.Journal of visualized surgery · 2024Article
- Three-Dimensional Imaging-Guided Lung Anatomic Segmentectomy: A Single-Center Preliminary Experiment.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Surgical outcomes after multiple segmentectomy: a cohort study.Journal of thoracic disease · 2022Article
- Short-term local control after VATS segmentectomy and lobectomy for solid NSCLC of less than 2 cm.Thoracic cancer · 2021Article
- Right upper lobe segmentectomy guided by simplified anatomic models.JTCVS techniques · 2020Article
- Interactions between the enhanced recovery after surgery pathway and risk factors for lung infections after pulmonary malignancy operation.Translational lung cancer research · 2020Article
- The effectiveness of preemptive analgesia for relieving postoperative pain after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS): a prospective, non-randomized controlled trial.Journal of thoracic disease · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundPulmonary segmentectomies are generally classified into simple (tri-segmentectomy or lingulectomy as well as apical or basilar segmentectomy) and complex (individual or bi-segmentectomy of the upper, middle and lower lobes). Complex segmentectomies are technically feasible by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) but remain challenging, and reports on post-operative outcomes are scarce. This study analyzes the differences between simple and complex VATS segmentectomy in terms of peri- and post-operative outcomes.
methodsWe retrospectively reviewed records of all patients who underwent anatomical pulmonary segmentectomy by VATS from 2014 to 2018 in two university hospitals.
resultsA total of 232 patients (114 men; median age 67 years; range, 29-87 years) underwent VATS segmentectomy for primary lung cancer (n=177), metastases (n=26) and benign lesions (n=29). The overall 30-day mortality and morbidity rates were 0.8% and 29.7%, respectively. The re-operation rate was 4.7%. Complex segmentectomy was realized in 111 patients including 86 (77.5%) upper lobe segmentectomies and 44 (39.6%) bi-segmentectomies. There was no statistical difference between complex and simple segmentectomy in terms of operative time (145
conclusionsIn comparison with simple segmentectomy, complex segmentectomy by VATS seems to present similar post-operative complication rates. Learning curve and progressive increase in acceptance by surgeons seem to be key elements for successful implementation of complex segmentectomies and could explain the shorter length of stay we observed.
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.