肺癌葉切除：胸腔鏡手術と開胸で長期生存率差などアウトカム差認めず

3年生存率、無疾患生存率、癌特異的生存率に差を認めなかった


胸腔鏡手術は術後合併症が少ないことは示されていたが、長期アウトカムに関する検証は今ひとつだったとのことでの検討らしい


Long term survival with thoracoscopic versus open lobectomy: propensity matched comparative analysis using SEER-Medicare database

BMJ 2014; 349 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5575 (Published 02 October 2014)
Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g5575





Kaplan-Meier survival plots (time until death with number of participants at risk) for thoracoscopic and thoracotomy lobectomy in unmatched (left side) and matched (right side) samples



Cox proportional hazards models for all cause mortality, disease specific mortality, and disease recurrence in matched and unmatched samples