Table 1.

Characteristics of the included studies

First author [ref.]	Year of publication	Country	Conservative recurrence/total	Surgical recurrence/total	Median follow-up time, months
Aldaqal [12]	2004	Saudi Arabia	0/6	4/19	25
Wilson [13]	2007	United States	21/38	16/78	13
Kuba [14]	2009	Japan	8/31	38/169	12
Kayahan [15]	2012	Turkey	1/12	4/18	42
Oran [16]	2013	Turkey	5/25	3/21	35
Omranipour [17]	2013	Iran	7/22	0/21	16
Yabanoğlu [18]	2015	Turkey	9/44	0/33	17
Atak [19]	2015	Turkey	2/17	13/23	25
Aghajanzadeh [20]	2015	Iran	11/195	0/11	18
Uysal [21]	2017	Turkey	37/258	12/60	16