Robotic Versus Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lung Resection During Early Program Development.

CONCLUSIONS: A micro-costing analysis demonstrates that RP pulmonary resection for early stage non-small cell lung cancer utilizes more health care resource dollars when compared with VATS during early program development, but offers similar perioperative outcomes. PMID: 29502935 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - March 2, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Kaur MN, Xie F, Shiwcharan A, Patterson L, Shargall Y, Finley C, Schieman C, Dalimonte T, Fahim C, Hanna WC Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research