Clinical analysis of subxiphoid vs. lateral approaches for treating early anterior mediastinal thymoma.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the clinical efficacy of the subxiphoid approach for early anterior mediastinal thymoma and evaluate its advantages over the lateral intercostal approach.

Methods

A total of 345 patients with early anterior mediastinal thymoma were retrospectively analyzed from January 2016 to December 2020 in the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University. Out of these, 99 patients underwent subxiphoid video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy and 246 patients underwent transthoracic video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy. We compared the intraoperative conditions (such as operation time and intraoperative blood loss), postoperative conditions [such as postoperative pleural drainage volume, extubation time, postoperative hospital stay, and postoperative visual a

SUBMITTER: Li B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9632990 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature