A safe anastomotic technique of using the transorally inserted anvil (OrVil™) in Roux-en-Y reconstruction after laparoscopy-assisted total gastrectomy for proximal malignant tumors of the stomach

Table 3 Relevant reported results of end-to-side circular staple anastomosis with OrVil™

Author	Year	Gastrectomy technique	Number	BMI (kg/m²)	Mortality (%)	EJ leak rate (%)	EJ stenosis rate (%)
Jeong and Park [19].	2009	TLTG	16	23.0^a	0	0	0
Sakuramoto et al.[22].	2010	LATG	26	24.0^b	0	0	3.8
Kachikwu et al.[23].	2011	TLTG	16	24.9^a	0	0	18.8
Kunisaki et al.[10].	2011	LATG	30	23.0^b	3.3	3.3	N/R
Marangoni et al.[24].	2012	TLTG	13	N/R	7.7	0	N/R
Shim et al.[25].	2012	TLTG	12	24.3^b	0	16.7	33.3
Liao et al.[26].	2013	LATG	19	21.2^b	0	0.5	0.5
Zuiki et al.[21].	2013	LATG	52	21.6^b	0	1.9	21
Chong-Wei et al.[27].	2013	TLTG	16	N/R	0	0	N/R
Lafemina et al.[28].	2013	TLTG	17	27.1^a	0	5.9	5.9

^aMedian.^bMean. BMI, body mass index; EJ, esophagojejunal; N/R, not reported; LATG, laparoscopically assisted total gastrectomy; TLTG, totally laparoscopic total gastrectomy.

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