ArticleGeneral thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2024
A comparative study of robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and conventional approaches for short-term outcomes of anatomical segmentectomy.
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- Evaluating Surgical Approaches in Early NSCLC: A Meta-Analysis of Robot-Assisted and Video-Assisted Techniques.Annals of surgical oncology · 2026Pooled it
- Simulation in robotic-assisted thoracic surgery: a systematic review.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Comment on: "Complex lung segmentectomy: comparative perioperative outcomes of robotic and video-assisted approaches".General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2026Article
- Textbook outcome after minimally invasive pulmonary resection for clinical stage I lung cancer: A retrospective cohort study.Surgery today · 2026Article
- Complex lung segmentectomy: comparative perioperative outcomes of robotic and video-assisted approaches.General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2026Article
- Short-term outcomes of robot-assisted and conventional lung segmentectomy: a single-center retrospective comparative study.Fukushima journal of medical science · 2026Article
- Single-port robotic segmentectomy using the da Vinci SP system for non-small cell lung cancer.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Article
- Minimally invasive segmentectomy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): a comparative analysis of robotic and thoracoscopic approaches.BMC surgery · 2025Article
- Refining Surgical Standards: The Role of Robotic-Assisted Segmentectomy in Early-Stage Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.Cancers · 2025Review
- 10-Year Long-Term Outcomes of Robotic-Assisted Segmentectomy for Early-Stage Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Lobectomy for primary lung cancer: a comparison of perioperative and postoperative outcomes between robot-assisted thoracic surgery and video-assisted thoracic surgery.Surgery today · 2025Article
- Learning curve of consolers and bedside surgeons fused robotic-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomy: insights from the initial 100 cases.Surgery today · 2025Article
- Impact of robotic-assisted versus video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery on efficacy and quality of life in patients with pulmonary opacities: a propensity score-matched analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Effective division of the intersegmental plane using a robotic stapler in robotic pulmonary segmentectomy.Surgery today · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivesSince anatomical segmentectomy requires meticulous dissection of the segmental pulmonary vessels and bronchus, robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) has been widely adopted in recent years. We investigated the usefulness of RATS segmentectomy by comparing perioperative outcomes with conventional approaches including open thoracotomy or video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). We compared perioperative outcomes of segmentectomy between RATS and conventional approaches including open thoracotomy or video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS).
methodsThis single-institutional retrospective study comprised 231 patients with primary lung cancer who underwent segmentectomy by RATS or conventional approaches between January 2011 and December 2022. Surgical outcomes and postoperative complications were analyzed among patients whose background factors were adjusted by propensity score matching (PSM).
resultsBefore PSM, there were significant differences in age, smoking status, and types of segmentectomy. After PSM, 126 patients (63 patients in each group) were included in this analysis. The RATS group had significantly shorter operative time (154 vs 210 min; p < 0.01), fewer bleeding amounts (10 vs 40 mL; p < 0.01), and shorter duration of chest drainage (2 vs 2 days; p = 0.04) than the conventional-approach group. There was no significant difference in the incidence of all complications; however, the incidence of postoperative pneumonia was significantly lower than in the conventional-approach group (p = 0.02).
conclusionsRATS segmentectomy is proposed to be useful. It was suggested that RATS segmentectomy may be useful with better perioperative results than the conventional approach. Further studies on oncological long-term outcomes and cost-benefit comparisons are needed.
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