Table 5.

Literature review on robotic total gastrectomy, overall number of reported cases

	Year	Type	Subject	Country	Institution	Period	No.
Present study	2017	Prospective CS	RTG	Italy	St. Mary’s Hospital of Terni	2014-2016	55
Jiang et al[24]	2015	Retrospective CS	RAG	China	Nanjing University Medical College	2010-2012	65
Kim et al[14]	2012	nonRCT	RAG vs LG vs OG	South Korea	Yonsei University College of Medicine	2005-2010	109
Son et al[15]	2014	nonRCT	RTG vs LTG
						2005-2010	51
Woo et al[11]	2011	nonRCT	RAG vs LG			2005-2009	62
Song et al[7]	2009	Prospective CS	RAG			2005-2007	33
Park et al[20]	2013	Retrospective CS	RAG	South Korea	National Cancer Center	2009-2012	46
Yoon et al[17]	2012	nonRCT	RTG vs LTG
						2009-2011	36
Kang et al[13]	2012	nonRCT	RAG vs LG	South Korea	Ajou University School of Medicine	2008-2011	16
Hur et al[8]	2010	Retrospective CS	RAG			2010	2
Hyun et al[18]	2013	nonRCT	RAG vs LG	South Korea	Korea University Anam Hospital	2009-2010	9
Son et al[15]	2012	nonRCT	RAG vs LG	South Korea	Seoul University Bundang Hospital	2007-2011	1
Junfeng et al[21]	2014	nonRCT	RAG vs LG	China	Third Military Medical University	2010-2013	26
Liu et al[19]	2013	Prospective CS	RAG	China	Subei People's Hospital of Jiangsu	2011-2013	54
Giulianotti et al[25]	2003	Retrospective CS	RAG	Italy	Misericordia Hospital of Grosseto	2000-2002	10
Coratti et al[26]	2015	Retrospective CS	RAG	Italy		2000-2014	38
D'Annibale et al[10]	2011	Retrospective CS	RAG	Italy	S. Giovanni Addolorata Hospital	2004-2009	11
Caruso et al[9]	2011	nonRCT	RAG vs OG	Italy	Hospital of Spoleto	2006-2010	12
Suda et al[23]	2014	nonRCT	RAG vs LG	Japan	Fujita Health University	2009-2012	30
Huang et al[12]	2012	nonRCT	RAG vs LG vs OG	Taiwan	Taipei Veterans General Hospital	2010-2012	7
Vasilescu et al[16]	2012	Retrospective CS	RAG	Romania	Fundeni Clinical Institute	2008-2012	19
Zawadzki et al[27]	2014	CR	RAG	Poland	Wroclaw Medical University	2014	1
Parisi et al[5]	2015	Prospective CS	RTG	Italy	St. Mary’s Hospital of Terni	2014-2015	22
Total1							466

¹Excluding the present study.