Laparoscopic endoscopic cooperative surgery as a minimally invasive treatment for gastric submucosal tumor

Table 3 Previous clinical reports of laparoscopic endoscopic cooperative surgery for gastric submucosal tumor

Ref.	Year	Number of patients	Median tumor size (cm)	Median operating time (min)	Median estimated blood loss (mL)	Conversion to open surgery
Hiki et al[7]	2008	7	4.6	169	7	0
Kawahira et al[14]	2012	16	2.8	172	5	0
Tsujimoto et al[6]	2012	20	3.8	157	3.5	0
Dong et al[15]	2013	6	3.5	83.3	NA	0
Qiu et al[16]	2013	69	2.8	81.6	29.8	0
Hoteya et al[17]	2014	25	NA	156.3	NA	0
Waseda et al[18]	2014	27	3.6	167.5	5	0
Mori et al[19]	2014	12	3.9	146.3	NA	0
Our case	2015	8	3.1	213	5	0

NA: Not available.