Table 5.

Surgical characteristics of included studies.

Study	Conduit			Conduit location	Anastomosis location	Minimal access or open surgery
	Stomach	Colon	Jejunum
Aghajanzadeh et al. (2008) [17]	154	28	10	Posterior mediastinum 172	Cervical 172 Mediastinum 20	Open 192
Brown et al. (2013) [18]	117	0	0	Posterior mediastinum 117	Cervical 117	Minimal access abdominal & thoracic 117
Carey et al. (2011) [19]	n/r	n/r	n/r	n/r	n/r	n/r
Couper (2011) [20]	48	0	0	n/r	n/r	Open 27 Minimal access thoracic 21
D'Journo et al. (2012) [21]	205	0	0	Posterior mediastinum	Mediastinum 205	Open 205
Ginex et al. (2013) [22]	200	n/r	n/r	Posterior mediastinum 200	Mediastinum 200	n/r
Greene et al. (2014) [23]	0	63	0	Posterior mediastinum 57 Substernal 4	Cervical 63	Open 63
Haverkort et al. (2010b) [24], (2012c) [25]	96	0	0	Posterior mediastinum 96	Mediastinum 50 Cervical 46	Open 96
Koizumi et al. (2011) [26]	22	0	0	Posterior mediastinum 22	Mediastinum or cervical	Open 22
Ludwig et al. (2001) [27]	48	0	0	Posterior mediastinum 48	Cervical 44 Mediastinum 4	Open 48
Martin et al. (2007) [28]	n/r	n/r	n/r	n/r	n/r	n/r
Martin et al. (2009) [29]	156	5	42	Posterior mediastinum 164 Abdomen 39	Mediastinum or cervical	n/r
McLarty et al. (1997) [30]	99	3	4	Posterior mediastinum 99 Abdomen 3	Mediastinum 87 Cervical 20	Open 107
Ogendo (2007) [31]	n/r	n/r	n/r	n/r	n/r	n/r
Ouattara et al. (2012) [32]	118	0	0	Posterior mediastinum 118	Mediastinum 98 Cervical 20	Open 118
Ryan et al. (2006) [7]	204	0	1	Posterior mediastinum	Mediastinum 160 Cervical 45	Open 205
Suzuki et al. (1994) [33]	n/r	n/r	n/r	Posterior mediastinum in 83%	Cervical in 83%	n/r

n/r = not reported, [22] 200 of 208 patients reported underwent Ivor Lewis esophagogastrectomy. The procedure was not stated for eight patients.