Does Operative Duration of Lobectomy for Early Lung Cancer Increase Perioperative Morbidity?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Longer bariatric, colorectal, plastic, spine, and urologic operations increase complications and lengths of stay. We aimed to determine whether this is a risk factor for lung lobectomy morbidity.

Methods

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database was queried for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer lobectomy with surgical duration treated as a continuous variable. Univariate and multivariate analyses compared patient and clinical characteristics with perioperative outcomes and procedure durations. Robotic cases were combined with thoracoscopic cases for duration analyses into a minimally invasive group. All analyses were conducted in SAS v9.4 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC) at a significance level of .05.

Results

In 17,852 patients mean

SUBMITTER: Dexter E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9381650 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature