Table 3.

Landmark series of single-incision laparoscopic surgery

Author	Year	N	Conver.	Compli.	Time	Type of LESS	Comment
Piskun	1998	10	0	0	NR	Transumbilical Multi-port	Used Navarra technique
Cuesta	2008	10	0	0	70	Multi-port	Kirschner wires
Navarra	2008	30	0	0	123	Two-port	First using transumbilical two port
Rao	2008	20	3(15%)	0	40	R-Port	First using access device
Palanivelu	2008	10	4(40%)	1(10%)	148	Multi-port	Used flexible endoscope for appendectomy
Bucher	2009	11	0	0	52	Access device	Also series on colectomies
Podolsky	2009	5	0	0	121	Multi-port ‘MickeyMouse’	Curcillo technique SPA/SIMPLE
Tacchino	2009	12	0	0	50	Three 5-mm trocars	Roticulating endoshears
Kuon Lee	2009	37	5(13.5)	2(5.4)	83	Assembled access device	Mesentric and R Hepatic duct inury
Zhu	2009	26	0	0	62	3-5-mm transumbilical trocars	5-cm longer instruments
Rivas	2009	100	13%	0	50.8	SILS Port	‘Puppetry’
White	2009	100	6%	4%	119	Access device	Urology cases 11-month FU
Erbella	2010	100	2%	0	NR	SIMPLE	6-month F U
Curcillo	2010	297	8.7%	minor	71	All types	Multi-institutional

N, number of patients; Conver., conversions, Compli., complications, NR, not recorded; LESS, Laparo-endoscopic single-site surgery