[Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer before and after Surgery - a Comparison between Thoracotomy and Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery].

CONCLUSION: With respect to health-related quality of life, thoracotomy and video-assisted thorascopic surgery are equivalent in the long term. But there was a trend to improvement with both summary scores that might indicate superiority of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
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Source: Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie - December 1, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Hoeffkes D, Welcker K, Hendrix H, Kamlak V, Prisadov G, Noack F, Meyer A Tags: Zentralbl Chir Source Type: research