Review Article

Status and Prospects of Robotic Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: Our Experience and a Review of the Literature

Table 1

Summary of the latest case series for robotic gastrectomy.

AuthorYearNumber of
patients
Type of surgery
(TG/STG)
LN dissection
(limited/D2)
Operation time
(min)
Blood loss
(ml)
Number of
retrieved LN
Hospital stay
(days)
Morbidity
(%)

Anderson et al. [70]200770/742030024414.3
Patriti et al. [71]2008134/−90/1328610328.111.246.2
Song et al. [8]200910033/6758/42231.3128.236.77.814
Hur et al. [72]201072/−57/020536914
Liu et al. [73]201095/−2150–44010–10019–24(D1)/28–38(D2)11
Isogaki et al. [74]20116114/4622/39250(TG)/388(STG)150(TG)/61.8(STG)43(TG)/42(STG)13.34
D’Annibale et al. [9]20112411/130/24267.5302868
Lee et al. [75]2012120/1212/0253135466.68
Yu et al. [76]20124112/29285(TG)/225(STG)180(TG)/150(STG)34.25
Uyama et al. [77]2012250/257/1836151.844.312.111.2
Jiang et al. [78]20121202457022.56.35
Park et al. [19]201320046/154248.8146.137.9810
Liu et al. [79]201310454(TG)/38(STG)/12(PG)302.5(TG)/264.8(STG)/233.2(PG)80.823.16.211.5
Tokunaga et al. [17]2014180/1818/0311.532.540822.2
Barchi et al. [59]201566/00/640840
Coratti et al. [53]20159838/60296.1105.430.6712.2
Parisi et al. [60]20152222/00/2227020019.25.50
Quijano et al. [80]20161716/16/114984002114.523.5

TG: total gastrectomy; STG: subtotal gastrectomy; PG: proximal gastrectomy.