ArticleInterdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery2026
Simultaneous Ligation of Vessels During Robotic Right Upper Lobectomy.
Article in Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundHerein, we reported a new technique as the simultaneous ligation of vessels after bronchus section that could facilitate the achievement of Robotic-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (RATS) Right Upper Lobectomy (RUL).
methodsThe clinical data of all consecutive patients undergoing RATS RUL for management of early-stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) were included in the study. Patients were divided into 2 groups based on whether RUL was performed by simultaneous ligation of vessels (Simultaneous Ligation Group) or by traditional single isolation-ligation technique (Control group). The inter-group differences regarding operative and peri-operative outcomes were statistically compared to assess the feasibility and safety of the procedure.
resultsSimultaneous ligation (n = 7) compared to control group (n = 37) was associated with a significant reduction of operative time (127 ± 56 min vs 178 ± 78.5 min; P = .01) and with a lower number of staplers used (3.4 ± 1.1 vs 7.5 ± 2.4; P = .001) while no significant differences were found regarding the number of resected LN station (P = .76) and of resected LN (P = .75); blood loss (P = .69); daily chest drainage output (P = .73); and length of chest drainage (P = .81) and of hospital stay (P = .86). The median follow-up was 11 months (ranged from 2 to 18 months); no recurrence was observed.
conclusionsSimultaneous ligation of vessels represented a viable option for surgeons in challenging cases, when a standard technique was difficult to perform.
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.