Robotic rectal surgery: State of the art

Table 1 Studies overview

Ref.	Year	Country	Study design	Surgical technique	Platform	No. of pts Robot	No. of pts Lap	No. of pts Open
Park et al[8]	2015	South Korea	Comparative	Hybrid	DV	133	84
Levic et al[9]	2014	Denmark	Comparative	NS	DV	56	36
Yoo et al[10]	2014	South Korea	Comparative	Tot rob	NS	44	26
Koh et al[11]	2014	Singapore	Comparative	NS	NS	19	19
Melich et al[12]	2014	Canada	Comparative	Tot rob	DV	92	106
Barnajian et al[13]	2014	United States	Comparative	Hybrid	DV-S	20	20	20
Ielpo et al[14]	2014	Spain	Comparative	Tot rob	NS	56	87
Tam et al[15]	2014	United States	Comparative	Hybrid	DV	21	21
Ghezzi et al[16]	2014	Brazil	Comparative	Tot rob	DV-S	65		109
Kuo et al[17]	2014	Taiwan	Comparative	Tot rob	DV	36	28
Park et al[18]	2014	South Korea	Comparative	Hybrid	DV	32	32
Saklani et al[19]	2013	South Korea	Comparative	NS	NS	74	64
Fernandez et al[20]	2013	United States	Comparative	Hybrid	DV-S	13	59
Erguner et al[21]	2013	Turkey	Comparative	Hybrid	NS	27	37
D’Annibale et al[22]	2013	Italy	Comparative	Tot rob	DV-S	50	50
Kang et al[23]	2013	South Korea	Comparative	Tot rob	NS	165	165	165
Park et al[24]	2013	South Korea	Comparative	Hybrid	DV	40	40
Kim et al[25]	2012	South Korea	Comparative	Tot rob	DV	62	147
Kim et al[26]	2012	South Korea	Comparative	Hybrid	DV	30	39
Bertani et al[27]	2011	Italy	Comparative	Tot rob	DV	52		34
Kwak et al[28]	2011	South Korea	Comparative	Tot rob	DV	59	59
Baek et al[29]	2011	United States	Comparative	NS	NS	41	41
Park et al[30]	2011	South Korea	Comparative	Hybrid	DV	52	123	88
Patriti et al[31]	2009	Italy	Comparative	Hybrid	DV	29	37
Baik et al[32]	2008	South Korea	Comparative	Hybrid	DV	18	18
Pigazzi et al[33]	2006	United States	Comparative	Hybrid	DV	6	6
Parisi et al[34]	2014	Italy	Case series	Hybrid	DV Si	40
Baek et al[35]	2014	South Korea	Case series	NS	NS	182
Shiomi et al[36]	2014	Japan	Case series	Hybrid	DV	113
Kim et al[37]	2014	South Korea	Case series	Tot rob	DV-S	200
Stănciulea et al[38]	2013	Romania	Case series	Tot rob	DV-Si	100
Zawadzki et al[39]	2013	United States	Case series	Hybrid	DV	77
Sng et al[40]	2013	South Korea	Case series	Tot rob	DV-S	197
Du et al[41]	2013	China	Case series	Tot rob	DV	22
Alimoglu et al[42]	2012	Turkey	Case series	Tot rob	DV	7
Akmal et al[43]	2012	United States	Case series	Hybrid	DV	80
Park et al[44]	2012	United States	Case series	Hybrid	DV-S	30
Kang et al[45]	2011	South Korea	Case series	Hybrid	DV	389
deSouza et al[46]	2010	United States	Case series	Hybrid	DV	44
Pigazzi et al[47]	2010	United States	Case series	Hybrid	DV	143
Choi et al[48]	2009	South Korea	Case series	Tot rob	DV	50
Ng et al[49]	2009	Singapore	Case series	Hybrid	DV	8
Hellan et al[50]	2007	United States	Case series	Hybrid	DV	39

Tot rob: Totally Robotic; DV: Da Vinci; NS: Not specified.