Video-assisted thoracic lobectomy for lung cancer in Italy: the 'VATS Group' Project.
As part of the third Mediterranean Symposium in Thoracic Surgical Oncology, we introduce the Italian VATS Group ( http://vatsgroup.org/sito/index.php ). This national collaborative initiative was established in 2013 and started to recruit patients in January 2014; as of July 2016, 3680 patients have been enrolled in the database. Three different video-assisted thoracic surgery approaches have been predominantly used by Italian thoracic surgery centers, 71% of them preferentially adopting a multi-portal approach, with a 20% recorded morbidity. The majority of the cases were stage I adenocarcinomas of the lung. Conversion to open surgery occurred in 9% of the cases. The study suggests video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy as a 'gold standard' for the surgical treatment of early-stage lung cancer in Italy.
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
Roberto
R
Crisci
Department of Thoracic Surgery, ASST Mantova, Mantova, Italy.
Andrea
A
Droghetti
Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery & Medical Specialties, Policlinico University Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Marcello
M
Migliore
Department of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS ISMETT-UPMC, University of Pittsburgh, Palermo, Italy.
Alessandro
A
Bertani
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Careggi, Firenze, Italy.
Alessandro
A
Gonfiotti
Department of Thoracic Surgery, ASL Romagna, Forlì, Italy.
Piergiorgio
P
Solli
D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D009026:Mortality; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
VATS; lobectomy; lung cancer; lung resection; multicenter study