Current status of robot-assisted gastric surgery

Table 1 Summary of reports on robotic surgery for gastric tumors

Ref.	Yr	Country	Study design	Patients	Surgery	Sample
Hashizume et al[26]	2003	Japan	Review		Robot
Anderson et al[27]	2007	USA	Case series	Gastric adenocarcinoma only	Robot	7
Hyung et al[28]	2007	South Korea	Review, Nonrandomized comparative	Gastric adenocarcinoma only	Initial Robot	10
					Initial Lap.	10
					Recent Lap.	10
Patriti et al[29]	2008	Italy	Case series	Gastric adenocarcinoma only	Robot	13
Pugliese et al[30]	2009	Italy	Nonrandomized comparative	Gastric adenocarcinoma only	Robot	9
					Lap.	46
Song et al[31]	2009	South Korea	Nonrandomized comparative	Gastric adenocarcinoma only	Initial Robot	20
					Initial Lap.	20
					Recent Lap.	20
Song et al[32]	2009	South Korea	Case series	Gastric adenocarcinoma only	Robot	100
Hur et al[33]	2010	South Korea	Case series	Gastric adenocarcinoma only	Robot	7
Pugliese et al[34]	2010	Italy	Nonrandomized comparative	Gastric adenocarcinoma only	Robot	16
					Lap.	48
Kim et al[35]	2010	South Korea	Nonrandomized comparative	Gastric adenocarcinoma only	Robot	16
					Lap.	11
					Open	12
Ryu et al[36]	2010	South Korea	Case series	Gastric adenocarcinoma and gastric SMT	Robot	2
					Lap.	19
Buchs et al[37]	2010	Swizerland	Case series	Gastric SMT only	Robot	5

Lap.: Laparoscopy; SMT: Submucosal tumors.