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The purposes of this meta-analysis were to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of SVATS for early thymoma, to compare it with unilateral intercostal approach video thoracoscopic surgery (IVATS) thymectomy, and to investigate the clinical efficacy of modified subxiphoid thoracoscopic thymectomy (MSVATS) for early anterior mediastinal thymoma.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Original articles describing subxiphoid and unilateral intercostal approaches for thoracoscopic thymectomy to treat early thymoma published up to March 2023 were searched from PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library. Standardized mean differences (SMDs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated and analyzed for heterogeneity. Clinical data were retrospectively collected from all Masaoka stage I and II thymoma patients who underwent modified subxiphoid and unilateral intercostal approach thoracoscopic thymectomies between September 2020 and March 2023. The operative time, intraoperative bleeding, postoperative drainage, extubation time, postoperative hospital stay, postoperative visual analog pain score (VAS), and postoperative complications were compared, and the clinical advantages of the modified subxiphoid approach for early-stage anterior mediastinal thymoma were analyzed.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 1607 cases were included in the seven studies in this paper. Of these, 591 cases underwent SVATS thymectomies, and 1016 cases underwent IVATS thymectomies. SVATS thymectomy was compared with IVATS thymectomy in terms of age (SMD\u2009=\u2009\u2212\u20090.09, 95% CI: \u22120.20 to \u2212\u20090.03, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u200920%,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.13), body mass index (BMI; SMD\u2009=\u2009\u2212\u20090.10, 95% CI: \u22120.21 to \u2212\u20090.01, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u20090%,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.08), thymoma size (SMD\u2009=\u2009\u2212\u20090.01, 95% CI: \u22120.01, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u20090%,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.08), operative time (SMD\u2009=\u2009\u2212\u20090.70, 95% CI: \u22121.43\u20130.03, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u200997%,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.06), intraoperative bleeding (SMD\u2009=\u2009\u2212\u20090.30. 95% CI: \u22120.66\u20130.06, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u200989%,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.10), time to extubation (SMD\u2009=\u2009\u2212\u20090.34, 95%CI: \u22120.73\u20130.05, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u200991%,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.09), postoperative hospital stay (SMD\u2009=\u2009\u2212\u20090.40, 95% CI: \u22120.93\u20130.12, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u200993%,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.13), and postoperative complications (odds ratio [OR]\u2009=\u20090.94, 95% CI: 0.42\u20132.12, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u200957%,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.88), which were not statistically significantly different between the SVATS and IVATS groups. However, the postoperative drainage in the SVATS group was less than that in the IVATS group (SMD\u2009=\u2009\u2212\u20090.43, 95%CI: \u22120.84 to \u2212\u20090.02, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u200988%,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.04), and the difference was statistically significant. More importantly, the postoperative VAS was lower in the SVATS group on days 1 (SMD\u2009=\u2009\u2212\u20091.73, 95%CI: \u22122.27 to \u2212\u20091.19, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u200993%,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.00001), 3 (SMD\u2009=\u2009\u2212\u20091.88, 95%CI: \u22122.84 to \u2212\u20090.81, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u200997%,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.0005), and 7 (SMD\u2009=\u2009\u2212\u20091.18, 95%CI: \u22122.28 to \u2212\u20090.08, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u200997%,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.04) than in the IVATS group, and these differences were statistically significant. A total of 117 patients undergoing thoracoscopic thymectomy for early thymoma in the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Second Hospital of Jilin University were retrospectively collected and included in the analysis, for which a modified subxiphoid approach was used in 42 cases and a unilateral intercostal approach was used in 75 cases. The differences between the two groups (MSVATS vs. IVATS) in general clinical characteristics such as age, sex, tumor diameter, Masaoka stage, Word Health Organization (WHO) stage, and intraoperative and postoperative conditions, including operative time, postoperative drainage, extubation time, postoperative hospital stay, and postoperative complication rates, were not statistically significant (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&gt;\u20090.05), while BMI, intraoperative bleeding, and VAS on postoperative days 1, 3, and 7 were all statistically significant (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.05) in the MSVATS group compared with the IVATS group.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The meta-analysis showed that the conventional subxiphoid approach was superior in terms of postoperative drainage and postoperative VAS pain scores compared with the unilateral intercostal approach. Moreover, the modified subxiphoid approach had significant advantages in intraoperative bleeding and postoperative VAS pain scores compared with the unilateral intercostal approach. These results indicate that MSVATS can provide more convenient operation conditions, a better pleural cavity view, and a more complete thymectomy in the treatment of early thymoma, indicating that is a safe and feasible minimally invasive surgical method.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12885-024-11832-7","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,17]],"date-time":"2024-01-17T14:02:47Z","timestamp":1705500167000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Clinical study of thoracoscopic assisted different surgical approaches for early thymoma: a meta-analysis"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Jincheng","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ti","family":"Tong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haiping","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jindong","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haiyang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Quanqing","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhenxiao","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yinghao","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"11832_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"89","DOI":"10.1016\/j.lungcan.2019.10.016","volume":"139","author":"Y Tsukita","year":"2020","unstructured":"Tsukita Y, Inoue A, Sugawara S, Kuyama S, Nakagawa T, Harada D, Tanaka H, Watanabe K, Mori Y, Harada T, et al. 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