Table 1.
Demographic data n (%)
| Ref. | Study type | Anastomotic site |
Patient |
Leakage |
Stricture |
Sutured layer in HS | |||
| LS | HS | LS | HS | LS | HS | ||||
| Collard et al[11], 1998 | Comparative | Cervical | 16 | 24 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (6.3) | 11 (45.8) | Single |
| Orringer et al[12], 2000 | Comparative | Cervical | 111 | 112 | 3 (2.7) | 16 (14.3) | 39 (35.1) | 54 (48.2) | NS |
| Singh et al[14], 2001 | Comparative | Cervical | 16 | 43 | 1 (6.3) | 10 (23.3) | 3 (18.8) | 25 (58.1) | Single |
| Casson et al[15], 2002 | Comparative | Cervical | 38 | 53 | 3 (7.9) | 12 (22.6) | 3 (7.9) | 9 (17.0) | Mixed |
| Behzadi et al[16], 2005 | Comparative | NS | 75 | 205 | 4 (5.3) | 26 (12.7) | 11 (14.7) | 70 (34.1) | Mixed |
| Ercan et al[7], 2005 | Comparative | Cervical | 86 | 188 | 3 (3.5) | 20 (10.6) | 56 (65.1) | 169 (89.9) | Single |
| Blackmon et al[17], 2007 | Comparative | Thoracic | 44 | 23 | 3 (6.8) | 1 (4.3) | 4 (9.0) | 8 (34.8) | Double |
| Kondra et al[18], 2008 | Comparative | Cervical | 79 | 89 | 10 (12.7) | 24 (27.0) | 23 (29.1) | 49 (55.1) | Double |
| Cooke et al[19], 2009 | Comparative | Cervical | 974 | 159 | 117 (12.0) | 33 (20.8) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | NS |
| Deng et al[20], 2009 | Comparative | Cervical | 9 | 8 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (22.2) | 4 (50.0) | Single |
| Xu et al[21], 2011 | Comparative | Thoracic | 166 | 54 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (1.8) | 5 (9.3) | NS |
| Saluja et al[22], 2012 | RCT | Cervical | 87 | 87 | 16 (18.4) | 14 (16.1) | 7 (8.0) | 17 (19.5) | Single |
| Yang et al[23], 2012 | RCT | Cervical | 21 | 22 | 1 (4.8) | 1 (4.5) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (13.6) | Double |
| Wang et al[24], 2013 | RCT | Thoracic | 45 | 52 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (9.6) | Single |
| Price et al[25], 2013 | Comparative | Mixed | 260 | 57 | 21 (8.1) | 11 (19.3) | 33 (12.7) | 13 (22.8) | NS |
HS: Hand-sewn; LS: Linear stapled; NS: Not specified; RCT: Randomized controlled trial.