Table 4.
Comparative outcomes of laparoscopic versus robotic adrenalectomy.
| Author | Year | Approach |
Number of patients |
Mean tumor size, cm (range) | Mean operation time, min (range) | Mean blood loss, mL | Mean hospital stay, days (range) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LA | RA | LA | RA | P value | LA | RA | P value | LA | RA | P value | LA | RA | P value | |||
| Morino et al. [28] | 2004a | LTA | 10 | 10 | 3.1 (1.5, 6.0) | 3.3 (1.4, 6.5) | N.S | 115.3 (95, 155) | 169 (136, 215) | <0.01 | N.A | N.A | N.A | 5.4 | 5.7 | N.S |
| Brunaud et al. [29] | 2008b | LTA | 59 | 50 | 3.4 (1.0, 8.0) | 2.8 (0.9, 7.5) | N.S | 87 (50, 160) | 104 (60, 180) | 0.003 | 71 | 49 | <0.001 | 6.3 | 6.9 | N.S |
| Agcaoglu et al. [30] | 2012b | PRA | 31 | 31 | 3.0 ± 0.2 | 3.1 ± 0.2 | N.S | 165.7 ± 9.5 | 163.2 ± 10.1 | N.S | 35.6 ± 9.9 | 25.3 ± 10.3 | N.S | 1* | 1* | N.S |
| Karabulut et al. [31] | 2012b | LTA | 32 | 32 | 3.6 ± 0.3 | 4.8 ± 0.4 | 0.03 | 160 ± 9 | 165 ± 10 | N.S | 41 ± 20 | 41 ± 10 | N.S | 1.5 ± 0.9 | 1.1 ± 0.3 | 0.006 |
| PRA | 18 | 18 | 2.7 ± 0.3 | 2.3 ± 0.3 | N.S | 170 ± 15 | 166 ± 9 | N.S | ||||||||
| You et al. [32] | 2013b | LTA | 8 | 15 | 2.8 (1.0, 4.5) | 2.6 (1.0, 5.5) | N.S | 183.1 (75, 270) | 207.0 (120, 320) | N.S | N.A | N.A | N.A | 6.7 (5, 9) | 5.9 (4, 7) | N.S |
| Brandao et al. [33] | 2014b | LTA | 46 | 30 | 4.0* | 3.0* | 0.02 | 120* | 120* | N.S | 100* | 50* | 0.02 | 2.5* | 2* | N.S |
Values are expressed as mean with standard deviation, *except median.
LA: laparoscopic adrenalectomy; RA: robotic adrenalectomy.
aprospective randomized controlled study.
bretrospective study.
N.S: not significant; N.A: not available.