Do fewer complications result from a video-assisted approach to anatomic resection of clinical stage I lung cancer?
Anatomic resection of early stage lung cancer is performed with a low mortality rate, according to data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database. Perioperative complications are significantly less likely to occur when patients with stage I lung cancers undergo resection using the VATS approach. Further study is warranted to determine long-term effects of these differences in perioperative outcomes.
Self-inflicted injury patients presented with a higher mortality rate that was related to increased injury severity. The circumstances surrounding the trauma were not independently associated with an increased odds ratio of death after major trauma.