Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus open surgery for Stage I thymic epithelial tumours

a propensity score-matched study†

Gu, Zhitao
Chen, Chun
Wang, Yun
Wei, Yucheng
Fu, Jianhua
Zhang, Peng
Liu, Yongyu
Zhang, Renquan
Chen, Keneng
Yu, Zhentao
Pang, Liewen
Liu, Yangchun
Li, Yin
Han, Yongtao
Chen, Hezhong
Zhou, Xinming
Cui, Youbin
Tan, Lijie
Ding, Jianyong
Shen, Yi
Liu, Yuan
Fang, Wentao
Shen, Yi
Wei, Yucheng
Li, Yin
Liang, Guanghui
Chen, Keneng
Fu, Hao
Chen, Hezhong
Yao, Shihua
Cui, Youbin
Xin, Yanzhong
Zhang, Renquan
Kang, Ningning
Tan, Lijie
Ding, Jianyong
Wang, Hao
Chen, Gang
Wu, Jie
Chen, Chun
Zheng, Wei
Pang, Liewen
Wang, Fangrui
Liu, Yangchun
Lin, Qing
Liu, Yongyu
Wu, Yongkai
Fang, Wentao
Zhang, Jie
Shen, Yan
Wang, Changlu
Zhu, Lei
Gu, Zhitao
Han, Yongtao
Peng, Lin
Fu, Jianhua
Liu, Qianwen
Yu, Zhentao
Yue, Jie
Zhang, Peng
Chen, Yuan
Wang, Yuan
Geng, Yingcai
Zhou, Xinming
Zhao, Hongguang

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Guangdong Esophageal Cancer Institute, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center of Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China
Department of Endocrinology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Liaoning Cancer Hospital, Shenyang, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China
Department of Esophageal Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center of Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy of Tianjin City, Tianjin, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jiangxi People’s Hospital, Nanchang, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Chengdu, China
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

The Zhitao Gu and Chun Chen authors contributed equally to this work.

See Appendix.

Corresponding author. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 241 Huaihai Road West, Shanghai 200030, China. Tel: +86-21-62821990; fax: +86-21-62801109; e-mail: [email protected] (W. Fang).

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Received December 28, 2017

Received in revised form May 23, 2018

Accepted May 31, 2018

Online date: July 16, 2018

European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 54(6):p 1037-1044, December 2018. | DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezy239