| Author | Patient’s position | Port system | Laparoscope | | Single port | Trocars | Tip | diameter | Degree | Graspers/scissors | (diameter, mm) | (diameter, mm) | (mm) |
| McNally et al. 2011 [19] | NA | SILS port, Gelport, SSL port | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Bulut et al. 2011 [20] | Lloyd-Davis | SILS port | 3 trocars (5, 5, 5) | Straight | 5 | 0° | 5 mm curved endoscopic grasper |
| Gaujoux et al. 2011 [21] | Modified lithotomy | SILS port | 3 trocars (5, 5, 5) | NA | 5 | 0° | Standard grasper |
| Ramos-Valadez et al. 2011 [22] | Modified lithotomy | SILS port, GelPOINT Gelport | 3 trocars (5, 5, 5) | NA | 5 | 30° | Standard nonarticulated laparoscopic instrumentation |
| Katsuno et al. 2011 [23] | Lithotomy | Trocar insertion method, SILS port | 3 trocars (5, 5, 5 or 12) | Rigid | 5 | 30° | NA |
| Wolthuis et al. 2011 [24] | Supine (right hemicolectomy) Modified Lloyd-Davies (sigmoid resection) | SILS port, Quard Port GelPOINT, SSL access system | 3 trocars (5, 5, 5) | NA | 5 | 30° | Endo grasp |
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van den Boezem and Sietses 2011 [25] | Supine (right hemicolectomy) Lithotomy (sigmoid resection) | SILS port | 3 trocars (5, 5, 12) | Standard | 10 | 30° | Straight atraumatic grasper |
| Gash et al. 2011 [26] | Dorsolithotomy | SILS port, TriPort | 3 trocars (5, 5, 12) | NA | 5 or 10 | 30° | NA |
| Champagne et al. 2011 [27] | NA | SILS port | 3 trocars (NA) | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Chew et al. 2011 [28] | Supine (rectum: lithotomy) | SILS port, SSL access system, TriPort | 3 trocars (5, 5, 12) | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Fichera et al. 2011 [29] | Lithotomy | Gelport | 4 trocars (5, 5, 5, 12) | Rigid | 5 | 30° | NA |
| Chen et al. 2011 [30] | NA | None# | 3 trocars (5, 5, 5) | Rigid | 5 | 30° | NA |
| Papaconstantinou et al. 2011 [31] | NA | SILS port | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Ross et al. 2011 [32] | Supine | GelPOINT | 3 trocars (5, 5, 12) | NA | NA | 30° | NA |
| Gandhi et al. 2010 [33] | Supine (rectum: lithotomy) | SILS port, GelPOINT Gelport | 3 trocars (5, 5, 5) | NA | 5 | 30° | NA |
| Keshava et al. 2010 [34] | Modified Lloyd Davies | Gelport | 4 trocars (5, 5, 12, 12) | NA | 10 | 30° | NA |
| Waters et al. 2010 [35] | NA | SILS port | 3 trocars (5, 5, 5) | Rigid | 5 | 30° | NA |
| Adair et al. 2010 [36] | Low lithotomy | SILS port, GelPOINT Gelport, TriPort | 3 trocars (NA) | Flexible | 5 | NA | NA |
| Gash et al. 2010 [37] | NA | TriPort | 3 trocars (5, 5, 12) | NA | 5 or 10 | 30° | Johan bowel grasper |
| Vestweber et al. 2010 [38] | Supine, steep Trendelenburg | SILS port | 3 trocars (NA) | NA | 5 | 30° | NA |
| Boni et al. [38] | Supine, left side down, and mild Trendelenberg | SILS port Endocone | 3 trocars (NA) | NA | NA | NA | Articulating endograsper |
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