“…Of the 26 included studies, 14 reported on mortality [12,13,16,18,19,22,23,26,27,29,[30][31][32]. The only study to report a significant difference in mortality was the study by Alwarti et al, a retrospective cohort study published in 2021 [13]. This large study, which included 10,021 patients, encompassed all patients who underwent open lobectomy between 2005 and 2019, divided into three temporal cohorts as described previously [13].…”