Table 1.

Surgical outcomes in between robot- and video-assisted thoracoscopic enucleation of esophageal leiomyoma reported between 2004 and 2021

Surgical approach	Author	Number of case	Operation time (minute)	Postoperative hospital stay (day)	Surgical complications (number of case)
RATS	Elli et al. [5]	2	120*	–	None
	Bodner et al. [6]	1	147	7	None
	Augustin et al. [7]	1	147	4	None
	DeUgarte et al. [8]	1	–	4	None
	Kernstine et al. [9]	1	104	1	None
	Ka-fung chiu et al. [10]	1	–	6	None
	Khalaileh et al. [2]	1	288	3	None
	Compean et al. [3]	1	–	3	None
	Inderhees et al. [11]	1	143	5	None
	Elliott et al. [12]	1	–	2	None
VATS	Akaraviputh et al. [13]	1	120	6	None
	Zaninotto et al. [14]	7	142*	6*	None
	Nguyen et al. [15]	3	190*	6*	None
	Dapri et al. [16]	1	85	3	None
	Saleh et al. [17]	1	–	2	None
	Luh et al. [18]	12	95*	7*	None
	Claus et al. [19]	10	89*	3*	None
	Hu et al. [20]	1	180	10	Mucosal injury(1)
	Macke et al. [21]	1	–	3	None
	Jeon et al. [22]	17	170*	4*	Mucosal injury(3)
	Kang et al. [23]	39	120*	9*	Mucosal injury (1)
	Maki et al. [24]	1	–	12	None
	Mujawar et al. [25]	1	–	6	None
	Zhang et al. [26]	8	60*	6*	None
	Chan et al. [27]	1	–	3	None
	Chen et al. [28]	1	–	8	None
	Li et al. [29]	52	123*	10*	Fistula (3)
	Alsinan et al. [30]	1	–	3	None
	Higuchi et al. [31]	1	288	7	None
	Milito et al. [32]	15	134*	4*	Atelectasis (1), Trocar site pain (1)

RATS, robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; VATS, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; *mean value