Table 3.

Clinical characteristics and quality assessment of the included records.

First author, Year, Ref	Country	Study type	N	Male	Female	Age	Quality score
Gaur et al. 1994 [22]	India	Retrospective	17	10	7	10–57	6
Chen et al. 1997 [23]	USA	Retrospective	8	3	5	29–80	5
Gimenez et al. 1998 [7]	USA	Retrospective	32	11	21	3–79	5
Gupta et al. 2000 [24]	USA	Case report	3	2	1	47–66	3
Takeda et al. 2000 [25]	Japan	Letter	11	5	6	2–15	5
Caione et al. 2000 [26]	Italy	Retrospective	20	11	9	2–18	5
Shetye et al. 2003 [8]	USA	Retrospective	74	29	45	3–79	6
Luque et al. 2006 [27]	Spain	Retrospective	53	28	25	1–18	6
Jesus et al. 2007 [14]	Brazil	Retrospective	17	5	12	2–12	6
Anas et al. 2008 [28]	Japan	Retrospective	21	14	7	21–83	5
Acikgöz et al. 2008 [29]	Turkey	Retrospective	9	5	4	/	4
Bastos et al. 2009 [30]	Brazil	Letter	5	/	/	1–13	3
Repetto et al. 2011 [31]	Italy	Retrospective	40	/	/	/	7
Micali et al. 2014 [32]	Italy	Retrospective	14	10	4	18–80	5
Aoun et al. 2019 [15]	Lebanon	Retrospective	40	16	24	20–77	8
Zou et al. 2023 [16]	China	Retrospective	104	71	33	23–76	7