Affiliation:
1. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Children's Hospital of Soochow University Suzhou China
2. Department of General Surgery, Xuzhou Children's Hospital Xuzhou Medical University Xuzhou China
Abstract
AbstractBackgroundThoracoscopic 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.MethodsThe 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.ResultsTwo 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.ConclusionThoracoscopic 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.