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Table 3 Patient characteristics

From: The change of health-related quality of life after minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: a meta-analysis

Study

Recruitment period

Intervention

Cases

M/F

Median/mean age (range)

Pathology (adeno/SCC/other)

TNM stage

Tumor site (U/M/L/GEJ)

ASA grade

Mean/median follow up (months)

Neoadjuvant treatment (no/CT/CRT)

Barbour et al. [17]

1988–2011

TAMK

377

316/61

64 (27–84)

299/78/0

51/80/125/121/0(0/I/II/III/IV)

0/42/299/36

275/102 (1&2/3&4)

27

175/87/115

Wang et al. [19]

2004–2013

MIE †

444

362/82

56 (32–77)

0/444/0

62/254/100/28 (0&I/II/III/IV)

63/244/137/0

321/107/16 (1/2/3)

27

364/22/58

Maas et al. [20]

2009–2011

MIE †

59

43/16

62 (34–75)

35/24/0

1/4/26/11/4/9/4 (0/I/II/III/IV/No residual tumor of LN. matas./no surgery)

N/A

10/34/14/1 (1/2/3/4)

12

0/5/54

Wang et al. [15]

2007–2008

MIE ‡

27

19/8

60.7 ± 9.3

1/25/1

6/14/4/3/0 (0&I/IIa/IIb/III/IV)

4/17/6//0

N/A

6

27/0/0

Parameswaran et al. [16]

2005–2007

MIE ‡

62

56/6

67 (49–80)

55/5/2

3/7/21/27/4 (0/I/II/III/IV)

N/A

N/A

12

0/48/0

Nafteux et al. [18]

2005–2010

MIE ‡

65

52/13

63.1(41–82)

52/N/A/13

10/55/0/0/0 (0/I/II/III/IV)

N/A

N/A

72

65/0/0

  1. TAMK thoracoscopically assisted McKeown esophagectomy, MIE minimally invasive esophagectomy, Adeo adenocarcinoma, SCC squamous cell carcinoma N/A not applicable
  2. †Thoracosopy + laparoscopy or laparotomy + cervical or thoracic anastomosis
  3. ‡Thoracosopy + laparoscopy or laparotomy + cervical anastomosis