Uniportal and three-portal video-assisted thoracic surgery pulmonary lobectomy for early-stage lung cancer (UNIT trial): study protocol of a single-center randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy is currently the recommended approach for treating early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Different VATS approaches have been proposed so far, and the actual advantages of one technique over the other are still under debate. The aim of our study is to compare postoperative pain and analgesic drug consumption in uniportal VATS and triportal VATS for pulmonary lobectomy in early-stage lung cancer patients.

Methods

This study is a single-center, prospective, two-arm, parallel-group, randomized controlled trial. It is designed to compare uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (u-VATS) and three-port video-assisted thoracic surgery (t-VATS) in terms of postoperative pain. The trial will enroll 120 patien

SUBMITTER: Mendogni P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7905892 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature