Table 6.

Literature review on robotic total gastrectomy, details of the reported data

	Robot - Assistance			Type	E-J anastomosis	Anastomosis performance	Site of minilaparotomy	Operative and clinical data	Patients and tumor details
	Lymphadenectomy	Stomach mobilization	Reconstruction
Jiang et al[24]	Performed	Performed		Roux-en-Y	EXTRA	Circular stapler	Not provided	Provided	Provided
			Performed	Roux-en-Y	INTRA	Robot-sewn	Not provided
Kim et al[14]	Not provided	Not provided	Not provided	Roux-en-Y	Not provided	Not provided	Not provided	Lack	Lack
Son et al[15]	Performed	Performed		Roux-en-Y	EXTRA	Circular stapler	Upper midline	Provided	Provided
				Roux-en-Y	INTRA LAP	Circular stapler	Left lower port
Woo et al[11]	Performed	Performed		Roux-en-Y	EXTRA	Not provided	Not provided	Lack	Lack
				Roux-en-Y	INTRA LAP	Not provided	Not provided
Song et al[7]	Performed	Performed		Roux-en-Y	EXTRA	Circular stapler	Upper midline	Lack	Lack
				Roux-en-Y	INTRA LAP	Circular stapler	Not provided
Park et al[20]	Performed	Performed		Roux-en-Y	EXTRA	Not provided	Upper midline	Provided	Lack
Yoon et al[17]	Performed	Performed		Roux-en-Y	EXTRA	Circular stapler	Not provided	Provided	Provided
Kang et al[13]	Performed	Performed		Roux-en-Y	EXTRA	Circular stapler	Upper midline	Lack	Lack
			Performed	Roux-en-Y	INTRA	Robot-sewn	Not provided
Hur et al[8]	Performed	Performed	Performed	Roux-en-Y	INTRA	Robot-sewn	Not provided	Lack	Lack
Hyun et al[18]	Performed	Performed		Roux-en-Y	EXTRA	Circular stapler	Upper midline	Lack	Lack
			Not provided	Roux-en-Y	INTRA	Not provided	Umbilical port
Son et al[15]	Performed	Performed		Roux-en-Y	EXTRA	Not provided	Not provided	Lack	Lack
Junfeng et al[21]	Performed	Performed		Roux-en-Y	EXTRA	Circular stapler	Upper midline	Provided	Provided
Liu et al[19]	Performed	Performed	Performed	Roux-en-Y	INTRA	Robot-sewn	Camera port	Lack	Lack
Giulianotti et al[25]	Performed	Performed	Performed	Roux-en-Y	INTRA	Circular stapler	Not provided	Lack	Lack
Coratti et al[26]	Performed	Performed	Performed	Roux-en-Y	INTRA	Robot-sewn	Not provided	Provided	Provided
D'Annibale et al[10]	Performed	Performed	Performed	Roux-en-Y	INTRA	Circular stapler	Suprapubic	Lack	Lack
Caruso et al[9]	Performed	Performed	Performed	Roux-en-Y	INTRA	Circular stapler	Upper midline	Lack	Lack
Suda et al[23]	Performed	Performed	Performed	Roux-en-Y	INTRA	Linear stapler	Not provided	Provided	Provided
Huang et al[12]	Performed	Performed		Roux-en-Y	INTRA LAP	Circular stapler	Periumbilical	Lack	Lack
Vasilescu et al[16]	Performed	Performed	Performed	Roux-en-Y	INTRA	Circular stapler	Not provided	Lack	Lack
Parisi et al[5]	Performed	Performed	Performed	Roux-en-Y	INTRA	Robot-sewn	McBurney	Provided	Provided