Left-sided approach video-assisted thymectomy for the treatment of thymic diseases

Table 2 Data on thoracoscopic thymectomy in literature at home and abroad

	Authors	Year	Cases	Operation time (min)	Blood loss (mL)
Right chest approach	Yasushi [8]	2008	11	163	123
	Torng-Sen Lin [9]	2003	51	150
	Liu HP et al. [10]	2005	107	90 ± 24	80 ± 22
	Li JF et al. [11]	2013	131	109.1 ± 45.6	101.3 ± 76.5
Left chest approach	Ruckert JC [12]	1999	19	122	100
	Mineo TC [13]	2000	31	148 ± 46
	This study	2014	52	105.3 ± 23.4	78.5 ± 70.1

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