Transitioning from video-assisted thoracic surgical lobectomy to robotics for lung cancer: Are there outcomes advantages?

The authors compared outcomes for VATS lobectomy by experienced VATS surgeons to those for robotic lobectomies performed by the same surgeons who were learning robotic surgery.  69 pts were evenly divided between the approaches.  Other than longer time required for robotic upper lobectomy, there were no differences between the groups in OR time, LOS, nodal harvest, morbidity, or mortality.