PMID: 11343931May 10, 2001Paper

Prospective study on video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in the resection of pulmonary nodules: 209 cases from the Spanish Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Study Group

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery : Official Journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
M F Jiménez, Spanish Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Study Group

Abstract

The diagnosis of pulmonary nodules has become one of the main indications of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), especially for small nodules not accessible by bronchoscopy or by percutaneous transthoracic needle aspiration. In this study we evaluate the indications, diagnostic safety, complications, and technical difficulty of VATS in the diagnosis of pulmonary nodules in Spain. We conducted a prospective study of 209 patients with one or more pulmonary nodules from a group of Spanish thoracic surgery divisions (The Spanish Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery Study Group). Data was collected and evaluated on variables contained on a questionnaire including demographic information, characteristics of the nodules, identification methods, surgical technique, morbidity and mortality rates, and diagnostic yield. The mean size of the nodules was 1.9 cm (range 0.3-5 cm). A total of 93.3% were peripheral. A diagnosis was established in 100% of the cases. In this study, 51.1% of lesions were benign and 48.8% were malignant. In 16.3% of cases, a conversion to thoracotomy was needed. The morbidity was 9.6% and the mortality 0.5%. We found a relationship between the size of a nodule and a diagnosis of malignancy (P=0.019) and between...Continue Reading

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