Table 3.
Characteristics of patients who underwent GUAET and CCND in the literature.
| Authors’ name (year) | Patients | Age (years) | BMI | Time (min) | Transient RLN injury | Permanent RLN injury | Postoperative bleeding |
Hematoma/seroma | Esophageal injury | Trachea injury | Number of retrieved LNs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kang SW (2009) (7) | 581 (GUA 133 cases) | 36.9 ± 9.9 | NA | 127.0 ± 40.0 | 13 (6.5%) | 2 (1.8%) | 0 | 4 (0.7%) | 1 (0.2%) | 3 (0.5%) | 4.6 ± 3.2 |
| Cabot JC (2012) (20) | 15 | 42.6 ± 10.0 | 23.4 ± 3.0 | 184.9 ± 26.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NA |
| Lee MC (2013) (21) | 84 | 39.4 ± 10.3 | NA | 193.3 ± 52.6 | 5 (6.0%) | 2 (2.4%) | 0 | 5 (6.0%) | 0 | 0 | NA |
| Kwak HY (2014) (22) | 200 | 38.1 ± 8.4 | NA | 102.0 ± 33.0 | 5 (2.5%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.9 ± 4.2 |
| XU JJ (2020) (23) | 88 | 35.3 ± 9.5 | NA | 93.5 ± 22.0 | 6 (6.8%) | 0 | 0 | 1 (1.1%) | 0 | 0 | 4.3 ± 3.0 |
| Xu SY (2021) (24) | 35 | 39.0 ± 9.0 | 24.0 ± 3.0 | 116.0 ± 14.0 | 2 (5.7%) | 0 | 1 (2.9%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 ± 1.6 |
| Cong R (2022) (25) | 51 | 35.0 (SD was not given) | NA | 141.6 ± 34.4 | 2 (3.9%) | 0 | 0 | 1 (2.0%) | 0 | 0 | 3.2 ± 3.2 |
| Sun BT (2022) (26) | 105 | 37.1 ± 8.5 | NA | 86.9 ± 31.3 | 5 (3.9%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.1 ± 2.3 |
| Chen DQ (2022) (27) | 55 | 41.6 ± 7.3 | 24.5 ± 1.3 | 109.0 ± 10.3 | 2 (3.6%) | 1 (1.8%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NA |
NA, not available.