ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2022
Robot-assisted
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- Radicality of mediastinal lymphadenectomy in anatomic lung resection for lung cancer: a comparative analysis of uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic and robotic-assisted thoracoscopic approaches.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Perioperative outcomes of robot-assisted versus video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for non-small cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis focusing on real-world clinical studies in the past 10 years.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
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- National adoption of robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for oncologic lung resections.Journal of robotic surgery · 2025Article
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- From Scopes to Bots: The Clinical Journey from VATS to RATS.Annals of cardiac anaesthesia · 2025Article
- Robotic-assisted mediastinal lymphadenectomy in lung cancer: a narrative review.Journal of robotic surgery · 2025Review
- Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on surgery in patients with early-stage lung cancer: the COVIDLungSurg prospective cohort study.Translational lung cancer research · 2025Article
- Early adoption of robotic lung resection in an established video assisted thoracic surgery practice.Surgery open science · 2024Article
- Robotic-assisted versus video-assisted lobectomy for resectable non-small-cell lung cancer: the RVlob randomized controlled trial.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Perioperative outcomes of robotic versus video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in non-small cell lung cancer patients after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy.Journal of thoracic disease · 2024Article
- Advancements in the diagnosis and treatment of sub‑centimeter lung cancer in the era of precision medicine (Review).Molecular and clinical oncology · 2024Review
- Comparison of transfusion rates between robotic- and video-assisted lobectomy: a propensity score matching analysis.Journal of robotic surgery · 2023Article
- Thoracoscopic surgery in lung cancer: the rise of the robot.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: The major advantages of robot-assisted surgery are the fine field of view provided by the high-precision three-dimensional (3D) images and the good operability provided by the robotic arms that enables precise movements. A growing number of retrospective studies have compared robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), but the number of cases is limited and the results are contradictory. Methods: We studied the medical records of primary lung cancer patients who underwent lobectomy with lymph node dissection between 2017 and 2020. Four hundred and eleven patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria in this study (RATS: 103; VATS: 308). We compared the perioperative factors and postoperative results of the VATS and RATS groups. Further, we adjusted background factors using propensity score matching (PSM) then compared the results of 200 patients (100 patients in each group). In this study, we matched interlobar fissure completeness, which affects operative difficulty and operative time; however, this has been superficially compared in previous studies. Results: After PSM, a significant difference was observed in the intraoperative blood loss (RATS: 53.3 mL, VATS: 120.3 mL, P=0.04). The rates of surgical complications were comparable between the groups (10.0% Conclusions: Initial experience of RATS had no obvious drawbacks when compared with that of VATS on propensity-matched analysis.
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