Table 1.
Study characteristics included in the meta-analysis
| Authors | Year |
Number |
Mean age |
Male/female |
Stage I |
Stage II |
≥ Stage III |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SL | PN | SL | PN | SL | PN | SL | PN | SL | PN | SL | PN | ||
| Gaissert et al. |
1996 |
72 |
56 |
63.4 |
60.8 |
56/16 |
42/14 |
29 |
9 |
31 |
25 |
12 |
22 |
| Yoshino et al.a |
1997 |
29 |
29 |
60.6 |
58.2 |
26/3 |
23/6 |
9 |
9 |
12 |
12 |
8 |
8 |
| Suen et al.b |
1999 |
58 |
142 |
63.7 |
66.5 |
41/17 |
81/61 |
18 |
37 |
28 |
46 |
12 |
59 |
| Okada et al. |
2000 |
60 |
60 |
60.9 |
60.6 |
52/8 |
53/7 |
/ |
/ |
/ |
/ |
/ |
/ |
| Ghiribelli et al. |
2002 |
38 |
127 |
65 |
62.4 |
36/2 |
102/25 |
16 |
29 |
10 |
43 |
12 |
55 |
| Martin et al. |
2002 |
38 |
81 |
65 |
63 |
27/11 |
63/18 |
10 |
10 |
16 |
32 |
12 |
39 |
| Deslauriers et al. |
2004 |
184 |
1,046 |
60 |
60.7 |
152/32 |
827/219 |
82 |
164 |
72 |
361 |
30 |
521 |
| Bagan et al. |
2005 |
66 |
151 |
60.7 |
58.16 |
58/8 |
138/13 |
40 |
35 |
14 |
35 |
12 |
81 |
| Kim et al. |
2005 |
49 |
49 |
58.7 |
58.1 |
44/5 |
46/3 |
14 |
24 |
20 |
13 |
15 |
12 |
| Lausberg et al. |
2005 |
171 |
63 |
61.5 |
60.9 |
136/35 |
56/7 |
33 |
7 |
80 |
32 |
58 |
24 |
| Ludwig et al. |
2005 |
116 |
194 |
62 |
59 |
/ |
/ |
31 |
32 |
41 |
52 |
44 |
110 |
| Takeda et al. |
2006 |
62 |
110 |
61.1 |
59.3 |
46/16 |
92/18 |
26 |
24 |
19 |
14 |
17 |
72 |
| Balduyck et al. |
2008 |
10 |
20 |
65.3 |
63.3 |
/ |
/ |
2 |
3 |
1 |
9 |
7 |
8 |
| Melloul et al. |
2008 |
69 |
78 |
/ |
/ |
/ |
/ |
15 |
28 |
30 |
21 |
24 |
29 |
| Parissis et al. |
2009 |
79 |
129 |
60.44 |
62.5 |
54/25 |
91/38 |
/ |
/ |
/ |
/ |
/ |
/ |
| Hanagiri et al.c |
2010 |
24 |
72 |
65.1 |
64.7 |
18/6 |
61/11 |
5 |
5 |
8 |
13 |
11 |
54 |
| Park et al. |
2010 |
105 |
105 |
61.25 |
62.24 |
99/6 |
98/7 |
44 |
43 |
32 |
36 |
29 |
26 |
| Bolukbas et al. |
2011 |
31 |
29 |
73.6 |
74.2 |
25/6 |
25/4 |
5 |
2 |
17 |
10 |
9 |
17 |
| Gomez-Caro et al. |
2011 |
55 |
21 |
63.5 |
62.4 |
51/4 |
18/3 |
33 |
7 |
20 |
13 |
2 |
1 |
| Total | 1,316 | 2,562 | 62.89 | 62.06 | 921/200 | 1,816/454 | 412 | 468 | 451 | 767 | 314 | 1,138 | |
aContaining two cases of small-cell carcinoma in the sleeve lobectomy (SL) group and one in the pneumonectomy (PN) group; bcontaining two cases of resection of the tracheal carina in SL; ccontaining two cases of right upper sleeve lobectomy with carinoplasty in SL.