Robot‐assisted thymectomy in large anterior mediastinal tumors: A comparative study with video‐assisted thymectomy and open surgery

• Published in: Thoracic cancer Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 267 - 273
• Main Authors: Jiang, Bin, Tan, Qun‐You, Deng, Bo, Mei, Long‐Yong, Lin, Yi‐Dan, Zhu, Long‐Fei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melbourne John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 01.01.2023; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: anterior mediastinal tumor; Body mass index; Cameras; Carbon dioxide; Endoscopy; Hospital costs; Humans; Intubation; Mediastinal Neoplasms - surgery; Myasthenia gravis; Original; Ostomy; Patients; Retrospective Studies; Robotics; Robots; robot‐assisted thymectomy; Statistical analysis; Surgery; Surgical outcomes; Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted; Thymectomy; Thymoma - pathology; Thymus Neoplasms - pathology; Treatment Outcome; Tumors; Veins & arteries; video‐assisted thymectomy; United States > US; Maryland; video-assisted thymectomy; anterior mediastinal tumor; robot-assisted thymectomy

Background The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of robot‐assisted thymectomy (RAT) in large anterior mediastinal tumors (AMTs) (size ≥6 cm) compared with video‐assisted thymectomy (VAT) and open surgery. Methods A total of 132 patients with large AMTs who underwent surg...