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- Title
Thoracoscopic versus thoracotomy lobectomy in children with congenital lung lesions: a systematic review and meta‐analysis.
- Authors
Liu, Xu; Wu, Ziheng; Li, Xin
- Abstract
Background: Thoracoscopic lobectomy is always compared with open thoracotomy in congenital lung lesions with no definitive results. This systematic review and meta‐analysis compared the clinical outcomes of thoracoscopic versus thoracotomy lobectomy in children. Methods: The electronic databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PubMed were searched. A meta‐analysis was used to analyse and compare the operating time, length of hospital stay, and postoperative complications, such as wound infections and respiratory issues, in thoracoscopic and thoracotomy lobectomy. Results: Two thousand and ninety five paediatric patients were analysed over 17 studies (1 ambidirectional cohort study and 16 retrospective studies). Of these patients, 903 and 1192 had undergone thoracoscopic lobectomy and thoracotomy, respectively. There was a significant lower incidence of overall and respiratory complications and longer operative time for thoracoscopic lobectomy compared with thoracotomy in children; however, pooling the results for the two methods revealed no significant difference in wound infection or length of hospital stay. Conclusion: Thoracoscopic lobectomy offers the benefit of having fewer overall and respiratory complications than thoracotomy. It did not, however, clearly outperform open surgery in terms of operative time, wound infection, or postoperative hospitalization.
- Subjects
THORACOTOMY; LOBECTOMY (Lung surgery); LUNG diseases; OPERATIVE surgery; SURGICAL complications; LENGTH of stay in hospitals; CHILD patients
- Publication
ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2024, Vol 94, Issue 1/2, p208
- ISSN
1445-1433
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ans.18859