From: Laparoscopic versus open gastrectomy for gastric cancer
Outcome | Studies | Participants | Heterogeneity | Model | WMD, RR, or HR | 95% CI | P | |
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I2 | P | |||||||
Lymph nodes harvested | ||||||||
 1. Distal gastrectomy | 9 | 667 | 64% | 0.005 | Random | −1.64 | [−3.76, 0.39] | 0.11 |
Severe adverse complications | Â | |||||||
 1. Distal gastrectomy | 8 | 627 | 0 | 0.81 | Fixed | 0.62 | [0.29, 1.34] | 0.22 |
Short-term recurrence | ||||||||
 1. Distal gastrectomy | 4 | 166 | Totals not selected | |||||
Long-term recurrence | ||||||||
 1. Distal gastrectomy | 7 | 545 | 0 | 0.77 | Fixed | 0.99 | [0.78, 1.26] | 0.93 |
Short-term mortality | ||||||||
 1. Distal gastrectomy | 8 | 471 | 0 | 0.69 | Fixed | 0.65 | [0.11, 3.79] | 0.64 |
Long-term mortality | ||||||||
 1. Distal gastrectomy | 7 | 389 | 0 | 0.28 | Fixed | 1.22 | [0.68, 2.17] | 0.50 |