Table 4 Comparison of DFS between laparoscopy- and laparotomy-treated women with endometrial cancer^a

From: Laparoscopic management of early endometrial cancer: current status

Author (reference)	DFS (%)
Author (reference)	n	Laparoscopy	n	Laparotomy
Malur et al. [18]	37	97.3	37	93.3
Holub et al. [42]	177	93.7	44	93.2
Eltabbakh et al. [45]	100	90.0	86	92.0
Langebrekke at al. [46]	27	100.0	24	95.9
Kuopalla et al. [23]	40	100.0	40	95.0
Zapico et al. [48]	38	81.6	37	81.1
Tozzi et al. [49]	63	87.4	59	91.6

^aThe basic data were extracted from paper published by Magrina [3] with this author's permission

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