SynthesisJournal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract2023
Establishing the Learning Curve of Laparoscopic and Robotic Distal Gastrectomy: a Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis.
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- Robotic vs laparoscopic distal gastrectomy with Billroth I and II reconstruction: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of robotic surgery · 2024Pooled it
- The Initiation of Laparoscopic Gastric Surgery in an Academic Hospital in Greece: Early Results.Cureus · 2026Article
- [Robotic gastrectomy: Research progress and practical challenges].Beijing da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Peking University. Health sciences · 2026Review
- The Learning Curve of Endoscopic Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Fetoscopic Robotic Open Spina Bifida Treatment (FROST): A Preclinical Feasibility and Learning Curve Study.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2025Article
- Review
- The state of roboticGland surgery · 2024Article
- Comparative Analysis of Learning Curves in Robotic Versus Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Systematic Review.Cureus · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundMinimally invasive distal gastrectomy (MIDG) is non-inferior compared with open distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer. However, MIDG bears a learning curve (LC). This study aims to evaluate the number of cases required to surmount the LC (i.e. N
methodsPubMed, Embase, Scopus, and the Cochrane Library were systematically searched from inception to August 2022 for studies which reported N
resultsA total of 45 articles with 71 data sets (LDG n=47, RDG n=24) were analysed. There were 7776 patients in total (LDG n=5516, RDG n=2260). Majority of studies were conducted in East Asia (n=68/71). Majority (76.1%) of data sets used non-arbitrary methods of analyses. The overall N
conclusionN
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