Study | Country | Design | Sample Size (n) | Age (year) | Follow-up (month) | Outcomes | |||
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Laparoscopic | Conventional | Laparoscopic | Conventional | Early | Late | Ā | |||
Gadallah 1999 [16] | USA | RCT | 76 | 72 | 45.0āĀ±ā1.8 | 47.2āĀ±ā2.4 | 0.5 | 0.5ā8 | complications |
Wright [14] 1999 | UK | RCT | 24 | 21 | 46.4āĀ±ā14.8 | 49.3āĀ±ā20.2 | 1.5 | 1.5ā26 | complications |
Tsimoyiannis 2000 [10] | Greece | RCT | 25 | 25 | 53.7āĀ±ā12.2 | 61.4āĀ±ā6.1 | 36 | complications | |
Jwo 2010 [12] | Taiwan | RCT | 37 | 40 | 56.6āĀ±ā13.4 | 54.4āĀ±ā16.5 | 1 | 1ā8 | complications |
Laanen 2018 [17] | Netherlands | RCT | 46 | 44 | 62.6āĀ±ā14.1 | 64.5āĀ±ā14.1 | 8 | complications | |
Qiao 2012 [18] | China | RCT | 58 | 58 | 47.64āĀ±ā13.73 | 24 | complications | ||
Qu 2017 [19] | China | RCT | 35 | 35 | 39.4āĀ±ā11.3 | 39.8āĀ±ā11.2 | 12 | complications | |
Xu 2010 [20] | China | RCT | 25 | 25 | 53.6āĀ±ā14.6 | 59.2āĀ±ā16.8 | 18 | complications |