Table 1.
Basic characteristics of the included studies
| Authors | Year | Country | Study Design | Mean Age (y) | Sex (M/F) | Type of ND | Number of CNDs | Sample Size* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LSJ | CT | LSJ | CT | |||||||
| Ozturk et al. | 2016 | Turkey | Prospective study | 62.7 | 17/8 | SND | 0 | 0 | 15 | 10 |
| Lin et al. | 2017 | Taiwan | RCT | 52.4 | 34/7 | SND | 0 | 0 | 21 | 20 |
| Tirelli et al. | 2017 | Italy | Retrospective study | 66.3 | 48/20 | SND/CND | 20 | 18 | 32 | 36 |
| Suzuki et al. | 2018 | Japan | Retrospective study | 67.5 | 52/14 | SND/CND | 3 | 3 | 30 | 36 |
| 23/21 | 98 | 102 | ||||||||
| P = 0.75a | ||||||||||
LSJ LigaSure Small Jaw; CT Conventional technique; y Year; ND Neck dissection; RCT Randomized controlled trial; SND Selective neck dissection;
CND Comprehensive neck dissection; M Male; F Female
a P-value from Chi-squared test of the pooled prevalence of CND between the LSJ and CT groups
* Number of sides of neck dissection