P Patient population Describes the patient population being targeted by the intervention (e.g., patients with Barrett’s esophagus) I Intervention Describes the intervention that is being studied (e.g., minimally invasive esophagectomy…
Qualitative criteria Quantitative criteria Histology Extent (vertical length) Benign Normal Malignant Focal Multifocal Diffuse Mechanism Severity of airway narrowing Extrinsic Normal Intraluminal Mild (<50 %) Exophytic Moderate (50–75 %) Infiltrative…
Author/year N Design Agents Imaging Effusion stage Quality of evidence Conclusion Wait et al. [13]/1997 20 RCT SK 250,000 u/day vs. VATS CXR Fibrino-purulent Moderate VATS had ↑ efficacy and…
Author Year N° Age Approach PD PR (%) Compl. (%) Recur. FUP (ms) Mansour et al. [5] 2003 77 22 Open PE+PC 91 14.3 1 12 Fonkalsrud et al. [9]…
Study/year/type Patients ventilation vs. surgery Outcome classification Advantage of surgery Authors’ notes Quality of evidence Marasco et al. [18] (2013/RCT) 23/23 DV, DICU, DHS, RC, Tr’y M, failed extubation, cost…
Author Year N Procedure F/U Success Recurrence CH Severe CH Satisfied Grade Neumayer et al. [5] 2003 6 T2 sympathectomy 5.2 100 % 0 n/a n/a 100 % Low Schick…
Stage I Macroscopically and miscroscopically completely encapsulated Stage IIa Microscopically transcapsular invasion Stage IIb Macroscopically invasion into surrounding fatty tissue or grossly adherent to but not through the mediastinal pleura…
Author N° patients SA Masaoka stage I/II TS (cm) 5-year survival (%) FU (months) RR (%) OC (%) OT (min) POS (days) Roviaro et al. [3] 22 uVATS 22 –…
Myasthenia subtype Thymectomy indicated Quality of evidence Recommendation AchR thymoma Yes Moderate Weak AchR early onset generalized Yes Moderate Weak AchR early onset ocular No Low Not recommended AchR late…
Author Year Study design Patients Results Evidence quality Clementsen et al. [10] 1998 Prospective, randomized 18 (9 small-bore, 9 large-bore) More patients required thoracentesis in small-bore group, but were more…
