Table 5. Comparable publications.
| First author / year (ref. no.) | Country | Centers | Percentage of laparoscopies |
Percentage of cancer |
Intraoperative blood loss |
Conversion rate |
POPF | Mortality |
| Mabrut JY et al.. 2005 (8) | Belgium | 25 | (127/127) – 100% | 13% | n.a. | 13.4% | 14% | n.a. |
| Weber SM et al.. 2009 (6) | USA | 9 | (219/219) – 100% | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | 23% | 0% |
| Jayaraman Set al.. 2010 (20) | USA | 1 | (107/343) – 31% | 17% | 150 mL | n.a. | 15% | n.a. |
| Song KB et al.. 2011 (21) | South Korea | 1 | (359/359) – 100% | 10% | n.a. | n.a. | 7% | 0% |
| Zhou ZQ et al.. 2014 (22) | South Korea | 1 | (246/246) –100% | 10.4% | 378 mL | n.a. | 237% | 0% |
| Croome KP et al.. 2014 (23) | USA | 1 | (108/322) – 34% | 100% | 492 mL | n.a. | 11% | 2% |
| Song KB et al.. 2015 (24) | South Korea | 1 | (137/1 661) – 8% | 75% | 592 mL | n.a. | 29.9% | 1% |
| Lee SY. et al.. 2015 (25) | USA | 1 | (131/805) – 16% | 100% | 262 mL | 31% | 8% | 0% |
| Siech M. Strauss P et al.. 2017 | Germany | 34 | (550/550) – 100% | 44.4% | 2.7% >500 mL | 15.6% | 39.0% | 0.9% |
n.a.. data not available; POPF. postoperative pancreatic fistula