ReviewFrontiers in surgery2022
Effect Evaluation of Subxiphoid and Intercostal Thymectomy: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.
Review in Frontiers in surgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Technical nuances and early outcomes of uniportal subxiphoid video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for anterior mediastinal tumor resection without artificial pneumothorax: a retrospective analysis.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Article
- Comparison of subxiphoid and lateral intercostal approach in anterior mediastinal pathologies.Turk gogus kalp damar cerrahisi dergisi · 2026Article
- Comparison of Subxiphoid and Lateral Intercostal Thoracoscopic Surgery for Anterior Mediastinal Tumors: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis.Thoracic cancer · 2025Article
- Factors influencing the difficulty of video-assisted thoracoscopic anterior mediastinal tumor resection via the subxiphoid approach.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- Subxiphoid video-assisted thoracoscopic extend thymectomy with sternal suspension for thymoma.Thoracic cancer · 2024Article
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- Risk factors for diaphragmatic injury in subxiphoid video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.Surgical endoscopy · 2024Article
- Thymus Surgery Prospectives and Perspectives in Myasthenia Gravis.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- Surgical management of thymic tumors: a narrative review with focus on robotic-assisted surgery.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2024Review
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Background: It still remains unclear whether subxiphoid video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (SVATS) thymectomy is safe and reasonable. This meta-analysis aims at assessing the effectiveness and safety of SVATS for thymoma in comparison with that of intercostal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (IVATS) thymectomy. Methods: All the relevant data systematically analyzed in this thesis were retrieved from PubMed, the Cochrane Library, web of science, EMBASE, and ClinicalTrials.gov. The time span for data retrieval was from the date of database establishment to March 2022. The outcome indicators include operation time, intraoperative blood loss, duration of postoperative drainage, postoperative hospital days, visual analogue scale (VAS) score on the day of operation, VAS score on postoperative day 3, and VAS score on postoperative day 7; postoperative complications were analyzed in our meta-analysis. Results: In 13 studies of this paper, there were 1,198 cases included. Among them, 563 cases were treated by SVATS thymectomy and 635 cases by IVATS thymectomy. There was no significant difference in the operation time [113.38 vs. 119.91 min, 95% confidence interval (CI): -0.70-0.15, Discussion: SVATS thymectomy is safe and feasible, and the perioperative effect is better than IVATS thymectomy to a certain extent, which is worthy of popularization and further research.
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