[Table/Fig-1]:

Post-operative (<30days) morbidity rate Courtesy Paolo Millo et al., [9]

Study ID	Year of last Publication	Number of patients	LAP morbidity rate (%)	Open morbidity rate (%)
Barcelona	2008	219	11	29
Braga	2010	268	12	20
CLASSIC	2010	794	39	42
COLOR	2009	1076	21	20
COST	2007	863	21	20
Curet	2000	73	4	17
Hasegawa	2003	50	4	19
Hewitt	1998	15	0	0
Liang	2006	269	15	22
Milsom	1998	109	15	15
Kaiser	2004	48	18	20