1. Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery is More Favorable Than Thoracotomy for Resection of Clinical Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer 
Bryan A. Whitson, MD, Rafael S. Andrade, MD, Adam Boettcher, BS, Ricardo Bardales, BS, Robert A. Kratzke, MD, Peter S. Dahlberg, MD, PhD, Michael A. Maddaus, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 83, Issue 6, Pages (June 2007)
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2. Fig 1
Typical setup for a left-sided video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy. Depending on which lobe is to be resected, the access incision and port intercostal level may be adjusted accordingly. (Reproduced from Whitson BA, et al, Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, in Press, with permission from Elsevier, Inc.)
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3. Fig 2
The number of lymph nodes collected is plotted as function of time of operation for the video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS; filled boxes, solid trend line) and the thoracotomy approach (clear diamonds, dashed trend line). Each point displayed is the average of five consecutive cases, except for the final thoracotomy point, which contains three cases, and the final VATS, which contains 4 cases.
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4. Fig 3
Kaplan-Meier curve for overall survival by video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS; black line) and thoracotomy (gray line). The number of patients at risk is listed below the abscissa.
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