Table 3.

Weighted recurrences post-primary resection

Paper	N = surgery	Recurrence post-surgery	Weight %	Recurrence (%)
Mussi et al. [6]	30	3	4.3	10
Burtenshaw et al. [7]	67	16	9.5	23.8
Turner et al. [28]	25	1	3.6	4
Yabanoglu et al. [29]	13	3	1.9	23
Smith et al. [30]	16	6	2.3	37.5
Bonvalot et al. [16]	41	1	5.9	2.4
Wilkinson et al. [15]	50	4	7.2	8
Stojadinovic et al. [32]	39	3	5.6	7.7
Wilkinson et al. [33]	15	2	2.2	13.3
Bertani et al. [20]	14	0	2	0
Desurmont et al. [34]	17	3	2.4	17.6
Netto et al. [35]	27	3	3.9	11.1
Zenzri et al. [36]	27	11	3.9	40.7
Kumar et al. [37]	22	8	3.2	36.4
Yalav et al. [38]	11	1	1.6	9
Pencavel et al. [39]	30	0	4.3	0
Crago et al. [40]	171	31	24.5	18.1
Xiao et al. [41]	11	1	1.6	9
Walter et al. [42]	36	26	5.2	72.2
Wheeler et al. [44]	18	0	2.6	0
Lahat et al. [45]	16	0	2.3	0
	696	123	100	Weighted53 = 17.7

Weighted recurrence post-secondary resection
Paper	N = surgery	Recurrence post-surgery	Weight %	Recurrence (%)
Cates [31]	29	9	54.6	31
Smith et al. [30]	4	1	7.6	25
Burtenshaw et al. [7]	3	0	5.7	0
Bonvalot et al. [16]	2	0	3.8	0
Kumar et al. [37]	8	3	15	37.5
Zenzri et al. [36]	3	1	5.7	33.3
Stojadinovic et al. [32]	2	2	3.8	100
Netto et al. [35]	1	1	1.9	100
Xiao et al. [41]	1	1	1.9	100
	53	18	100	Weighted53 = 33.9