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Robotic-Assisted Versus Thoracoscopic Lobectomy Outcomes From High-Volume Thoracic Surgeons

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(18)30543-5/fulltext?dgc…

Author(s)

Rishindra M. Reddy, Madhu Lalitha Gorrepati, Daniel S. Oh, Shilpa Mehendale, Michael F. Reed

For high volume surgeons (defined as 20 or more annual lobectomies), the use of a robotic approach had a lower conversion to open rate and a lower complication rate, while having a mean operating time that was 25 min longer on average compared to a VATS approach.