Table 2.

Outcomes of the studies included in the meta-analysis.

	Mortality	Postoperative complication	Primary anastomosis	Successful primary anastomosis	Stoma rate	Permanent/last f-u stoma	Anastomotic leak	Infectious complication
Alcantara et al.	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Arezzo et al.	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Cheung et al.	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Ghazal et al.	+	+	+	+	+		+
Ho et al.	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Pirlet et al.	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
van Hooft et al.	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+