Author Year Operation time (min) complication POHS (day) Rec Follow up (month)
Choi and Oh [10] 2000 100-140 open conversion:1 5.9 none up to 42
Matthews et al. [11] 2002 NA NA NA NA NA
Walsh et al. [12] 2003 186 (120-320) none 3-8 none 16.2(1-32)
Uchikoshi et al. [13] 2004 141.4(95-200) open conversion:1 7.6 1 in 2 year 14-99
Schubert et al. [7] 2005 83(56-130) NA NA NA NA
Li et al. [14] 2008 192(140-240) staple line bleeding:1 7.7 none 8-57
Na et al. [9] 2011 86.3(70-105) wound bleeding:1 5.7 none 8.5(1-23.3)
Sahm et al. [15] 2011 NA none 6.1 NA NA
Current study   176(132-217) none 7.5 none 121.7(1-192)
NA: not available, POHS: postoperative hospital stay, Rec: recurrence
Table 4: The review of the literature (clinical data).