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Table 2 Surgical details of included studies (type of resection, duration, blood loss and volume resected)

Ref.	Type of resection			Duration of operation/min		Volume of blood loss/mL		Volume of liver resected/g
		Steroid	Control	Steroid	Control	Steroid	Control	Steroid	Control
Donadon et al[13], 2016	Minor	9	11	383.5 (235-546)1	351 (226-640)1	275 (100-1000)1	200 (0-700)1	-	-
	Major	7	5
Hasegawa et al[15], 2020	Minor	40	39	215 (170-294)2	233 (157-270)2	52 (29-149)2	34 (17-76)2	-	-
	Major	10	11
Hayashi et al[12], 2011	Hemihepactectomy	11	15	330 (165-834)1	316 (136-697)1	324 (5-1577)1	257 (10-1972)1	77 (4-1930)1	75 (6-1300)1
	Segmentectomy	59	57
	Limited resection	32	26
Muratore et al[20], 2003	Minor	12	13	-	-	322.8 ± 261.43	294.6 ± 271.93	-	-
	Major	13	15
Pulitanò et al[17], 2007	Right hepactectomy	11	10	440 (220-480)1	408 (240-460)1	662 (300-800)1	621 (350-720)1	40.4 ± 203 (%)	39.5 ± 183 (%)
	Left hepatectomy	6	8
	Extended right hepatectomy	5	4
	Extended left hepatectomy	2	2
	Bisegmentectomy	6	4
	Segmentectomy	4	5
	Wedge resection	3	3
Schmidt et al[18], 2007	Segment II/III	4	5	2224	2524	3404	7804	-	-
	Segment V-VIII	6	5
Yamashita et al[16], 2001	Lobectomy or more	5	6	338 ± 215	352 ± 145	892 ± 1065	822 ± 555	239 ± 505	187 ± 335
	Segmentectomy	2	1
	Subsegmentectomy or less	10	9
Zi et al[19], 2015	Major	22	12	342.38 ± 129.733	353.21 ± 168.363	481.25 ± 415.983	496.15 ± 391.593	-	-
	Minor	18	27

¹Median (range).

²Median (interquartile range).

³mean ± SD.

⁴Mean.

⁵mean ± SE.