Table 2.
Results of the randomized clinical trials comparing the efficacy of gastrectomy with and without splenectomy
| Author | Year | Number of patients | Country | Morbidity | Mortality | Survival difference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Splenectomy (%) | Non-splenectomy (%) | Splenectomy (%) | Non-splenectomy (%) | |||||
| Cuschieri et al. [7, 25] | 1999 | 400 | UK | 54.0a | 28.0a | 16.0a | 4.0a | NS |
| Csendes et al. [34] | 2002 | 187 | Chile | 50.0a | 39.0a | 4.4 | 3.1 | NS |
| Yu et al. [26] | 2006 | 207 | Korea | 15.4 | 8.7 | 1.9 | 1.0 | NS |
| Sano et al. [29] | 2017 | 505 | Japan | 30.3a | 16.7a | 0.4 | 0.8 | NS |
NS, not significant
aDemonstrated statistical significance between the respective comparative groups