Table 2. Surgical series of mutlidrug-resistant (MDR-) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR-) tuberculosis patients surgically treated and described in observational studies.

First author	Year	Sample size/M/XDR	Culture positive, %	Sputum conversion rate, %	Morbidity/mortality, %	Success rate, %
Pomerantz et al. (51)	2001	172/172/NR	50	98	12/3.3	90
Park et al. (100)	2002	49/49/NR	63	94	16/0	90
Kim et al. (101)	2007	79/61/18	98	72	23/1.2	72
Naidoo et al. (98)	2007	27/27/NR	41	93	26/0	93
Orki et al. (102)	2009	55/NR	115	95	29/1.8	95
Park et al. (17)	2009	19/17/2	53	95	NR/0	79
Dravniece et al. (103)	2009	17/0/17	94	47	18/0	47
Kang et al. (59)	2010	72/46/26	81	78	15/1.4	90

NR, not reported.