About this trial
The aim of this study is to explore the advantages of robot-assisted thymectomy in long-term survival benefits and short-term clinical efficacy compared with video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy based on a multi-center, prospective, randomized controlled clinical trial.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
) The age of the subjects on the day of signing the informed consent was ≥ 18 years old and < 75 years old, regardless of gender ;
) Chest thin-layer CT and MR showed anterior mediastinal space-occupying lesions, combined with relevant hematological indicators, the patient was clinically diagnosed as a thymic epithelial tumor with or without myasthenia gravis ( MG ) symptoms.
) need to accept thymectomy surgery ;
) Clinical stage I to IIIA ( AJCC-UICC TNM staging system ) ;
Disqualifiers
) Patients with myasthenia gravis crisis ;
) had undergone mediastinal surgery or cardiac surgery ;
) body mass index ( BMI ) ≥ 30 ;
) Patients with severe liver and kidney dysfunction ( ALT and/or AST more than three times the upper limit of normal, Cr more than the upper limit of normal ) ;
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- RATS for Thymectomy
- VATS for Thymectomy