ArticleExperimental and therapeutic medicine2026
Efficacy of nerve blocks for postoperative analgesia in lung cancer: A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.
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- Clinical research advances in thoracic surgery and thoracic oncology in 2025: a panoramic narrative review.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Review
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Abstract
The management of postoperative pain in patients with lung cancer is a key factor affecting patient comfort and postoperative recovery. The aim of the present review was to compare regional block techniques with traditional analgesic methods, demonstrating their advantages in postoperative analgesia and facilitating patient recovery following thoracoscopic surgery. The effects of different regional analgesic techniques were systematically searched from establishment of the database to April 2024 in Web of Science, Embase and Cochrane. The search strategies were developed using the population, interventions, comparators, outcomes and study design framework, and the results are presented in accordance with the guidelines set out by the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses statement. The primary outcome was the visual analogue scale (VAS) score, with secondary outcomes including patient self-administered intravenous analgesia, number of patients requiring additional injections of analgesic following surgery and the incidence of adverse reactions as outcome indicators. The present meta-analysis included 14 randomized clinical trials with a total of 1,524 patients and four regional block techniques (paravertebral block, thoracic paravertebral block, serratus anterior plane block, intercostal nerve block). Based on limited evidence, regional block surgery was more effective at relieving postoperative pain and had a lower incidence of adverse reactions, but there was no significant difference in VAS scores between this group and the control group. Compared with the control group, five studies reported a significant decrease in the number of patients requiring additional painkillers following surgery in the group receiving nerve block (I
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