Table 1.
List of available publications concerning minimally invasive approach for inflammatory bowel diseases in pediatric population (PubMed, EMBASE, Ovid) n (%)
| Ref. | Country | Year | IBD | CD | UC | IBD-U | Complications | Years |
| Proctor et al[8] | Canada | 2002 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 (50) | 1999-2001 |
| Georgeson[9] | United States | 2002 | 18 | 0 | 18 | 0 | NS | NS |
| Rothenberg et al[10] | United States | 2002 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 (7) | NS |
| von Allmen et al[11] | United States | 2003 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 (8) | 1997-2002 |
| Dutta et al[12] | United States | 2003 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 (13) | 1998-2002 |
| Simon et al[13] | United States | 2003 | 29 | NS | NS | NS | 5 (17) | 1991-2002 |
| Bonnard et al[14] | France | 2006 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 (18) | 1999-2004 |
| Meier et al[15] | United States | 2007 | NS | NS | NS | NS | NS | NS |
| Fraser et al[16] | United States | 2010 | 27 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 18 (66) | 1998-2008 |
| Flores et al[17] | Argentina | 2010 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 4 (31) | 1991-2009 |
| Diamond et al[18] | Canada | 2010 | 136 | 83 | 50 | 3 | 50 (37) | 1999-2007 |
| Mattioli et al[19] | Italy | 2011 | 16 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 6 (24) | 2006-2010 |
| Laituri et al[20] | United States | 2011 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 3 (10) | 2000-2009 |
| Potter et al[21] | United States | 2012 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 (55) | 2010-2011 |
| Linden et al[22] | United States | 2013 | 68 | 0 | 68 | 0 | 13 (19) | 2003-2011 |
| Huang et al[23] | United States | 2013 | 44 | 25 | 16 | 3 | 10 (22) | 2002-2011 |
| Stephens[24] | Ireland | 2013 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3 (33) | 2009-2011 |
| Sharp et al[25] | United States | 2014 | 28 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 8 (29) | 2009-2013 |
| Vrecenak et al[26] | United States | 2014 | 71 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 23 (32) | 2001-2010 |
| Total | 559 | 296 | 224 | 10 | 158 (29.2) | 1991-2013 |
Case reports or case series have been excluded. This table provides the overall number of IBDs treated in a selected time span. Whenever available, the series were differentiated into patients with UC, CD and IC. Overall, a relatively high prevalence of major complications requiring some sort of surgical intervention has been reported (higher than 29%), still similar or even lower when compared to what previously published for open surgery. Complications rate was calculated basing on series providing incidence (541 overall patients). IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease; CD: Crohn’s disease; UC: Ulcerative colitis; IBD-U: Inflammatory bowel disease - unclassified; NS: Not stated.