Single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Single institution experience and literature review

Table 1 Patient characteristics and operative data

	Age (yr)	Sex	BMI	Previous history	History of cholecystitis	Operation time (min)
1	61	M	22.2	Appendectomy, HT	+	105
2	40	M	26.6	DM	+	102
3	41	F	19.4	None	-	64
4	60	F	23.7	DM	-	82

Table 2 All published reports of single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomies

Authors	Publication year	n	Conversion to standard LC (%)	Complication (%)	Average operating time (min)
Piskun et al[8]	1999	10	0	0	NR
Tacchino et al[7]	2009	12	0	2 (16.7)	55
Cuesta et al[9]	2008	10	0	0	70
Rao et al[10]	2008	20	3 (15)	0	40
Romanelli et al[11]	2008	1	0	0	68
Merchant et al[13]	2009	21	1 (4.8)	0	45-90
Palanivelu et al[14]	2008	10	4 (40)	1 (10)	148
Navarra et al[15]	2008	30	0	0	123
Cugura et al[17]	2008	1	0	0	NR
Bucher et al[16]	2009	11	0	0	52
Ersin et al[18]	2009	20	1 (5)	0	94
Nguyen et al[19]	2009	1	0	0	70
Langwieler et al[20]	2009	14	0	0	53-115
Podolsky et al[21]	2009	5	0	0	121
Zhu et al[12]	2009	26	0	0	62
Guo et al[22]	2008	1	0	0	158
Gumbs et al[23]	2009	2	0	0	< 60
Hong et al[24]	2009	15	0	0	79
Kuon Lee et al[25]	2009	37	5 (13.5)	2 (5.4)	83.6
Our cases	2009	4	0	0	83