# The Feasibility and Safety of Avoiding Chest Tube Placement After Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS）of the Lung

> **NCT04012554** · NA · UNKNOWN · sponsor: **Xueying Yang** · enrollment: 100 (estimated)

## Conditions studied

- Lung Diseases

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** avoid chest drainage tube placement after video-assisted thoracoscopic wedge resection of lung
- **PROCEDURE:** Indewlling chest drainage tube after video-assisted thoracoscopic wedge resection of lung

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT04012554
- **Lead sponsor:** Xueying Yang
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** UNKNOWN
- **Start date:** 2019-06-01
- **Primary completion:** 2020-06-01
- **Final completion:** 2020-07-01
- **Target enrollment:** 100 (ESTIMATED)
- **Last updated:** 2019-10-08


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04012554

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT04012554, "The Feasibility and Safety of Avoiding Chest Tube Placement After Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS）of the Lung". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT04012554. Licensed CC0.

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