Laparoendoscopic surgery in gastrointestinal diseases: Status and future perspectives

Table 2 Published series on laparoscopic and endoscopic cooperative surgery and rendezvous procedures for gastroesophageal junction and gastric diseases

Ref.	Technique (n)	N	Histology (n)	R0 resection	Conversion	Median hospital stay (days)	Adverse events
Gastroesophageal junction tumors
Hoteya et al[35]	LECS	5	Leiomyoma (4), GIST (1)	5	0	13	0
Aoyama et al[36]	LECS (13), NEWS (4), CLEAN-NET (4)	21	Leiomyoma (18), GIST (2), ectopic pancreas (1)	21	0	9	0
Ri et al[37]	LECS	20	NR	20	8	20	4
Gastric tumors
Tsujimoto et al[34]	LECS	20	GIST (16), leiomyoma (1), other SMT (3)	20	0	12	0
Kang et al[33]	LECS	101	GIST (78), leiomyoma (13), NET (3), other SMT (7)	0	0	NR	2
Ojima et al[38]	LECS (21), endoscopic guided intraluminal gastric surgery (25)	46	GIST (46)	21	NR	8	1
Mitsui et al[39]	NEWS	28	GIST (28)	NR	2	NR	1
Shoji et al[40]	LECS (14), NEWS (26), LWR (31)	71	GIST (49), leiomyoma (10), others (12)	NR	NR	NR	0
Cao et al[41]	LECS (25), endoscopic submucosal dissection (20)	45	GIST (45)	25	0	4	0
Kanehira et al[42]	CLEAN-NET (50), LWR (79)	69	GIST (36), leiomyoma (13), schwannoma (11), others (9)	50	0	6	0
Aoyama et al[43]	LECS (13), NEWS (4), CLEAN-NET (4)	42	GIST (24), leiomyoma (5), ectopic pancreas (6), others (7)	42	NR	7	1
Ri et al[37]	LECS	194	NR	194	2	7	8

CLEAN-NET: Combination of laparoscopic endoscopic approaches to neoplasia with a non-exposure technique; GIST: Gastrointestinal stromal tumor; LECS: Laparoscopic and endoscopic cooperative surgery; LWR: Laparoscopic wedge resection; N: Number of patients; NET: Non-exposure technique; NEWS: Nonexposed endoscopic wall-inversion surgery; NR: Not reported; SMT: Submucosal tumor.