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Table 3 Review of literature: studies of robotic assisted hysterectomy in endometrial cancer: population, mean operative time and lymph nodes count

From: Robotic surgery in gynecologic oncology

Authors

Year

Methods

Methodology

N

Mean Age (years)

BMI

Mean operative time (min)

Lymph nodes (n)

Veljovich [23]

2008

TAH/TLH/TRH

HC

131/4/25

63/54/59.5

32.2/24.6/27.6

139/255/283

13.1/20.3/17.5 (NS)

Bell [24]

2008

TAH/TLH/TRH

RS

40/30/40

72/68/63

31/31/33

108/171/184 (S and NS)

14.9/17.1/17

Denardis [28]

2008

TAH/TRH

HC

56

63/59

34/29

79/177 (S)

18/19 (NS)

Boggess [29]

2008

TAH/TLH/TRH

PSOC

138/81/103

64/62/61.9

34.7/29/32.9

146/213/191

14.9/23.1/32.9

Hoekstra [30]

2009

TAH/TLH/TRH

HC

26/7/32

56/59/62

37/31/29 (S)

202/270/195 (S)

17/16/17

Lowe P [31]

2009

MIa TRH

PS

405

62.2

32.4

170

15.5

Seamon [33]

2009

TLH/TRH

PS and HC

76/105

57/59 (NS)

28.7/34.2 (S)

287/242 (S)

22/21

  1. TAH total abdominal radical abdominal hysterectomy, TLH total laparoscopic radical hysterectomy, TRH total robot-assisted radical hysterectomy, S significative difference or NS no significant difference, CC case–control study, HC historical comparison, PSOC prospective study (without randomization) and open comparison, RS retrospective study, PS prospective study
  2. aMulti-institutional total radical robot assisted hysterectomy