A comparison of perioperative outcomes of Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgical (VATS) Lobectomy with open thoracotomy and lobectomy: Results of an analysis using propensity score based weighting

BACKGROUND: Randomized trials comparing VATS lobectomy to open lobectomy are of small size. We analyzed a case-control series using propensity score-weighting to adjust for important covariates in order to compare the clinical outcomes of the two techniques. METHODS: We compared patients undergoing...

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Autores principales: Scott, Walter J, Matteotti, Ronald S, Egleston, Brian L, Oseni, Salewa, Flaherty, James F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20307297
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-1164-4-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20307297
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-1164-4-1

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