Single port laparoscopic liver surgery: A minireview

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of small case series about single port laparoscopic liver resection

Ref.	Type of article	Year	Country	No. of patients by diagnosis			Type of Surgery				Child-Pugh classification of HCC patients
				Benign Lesion	HCC	Metastatic tumor	Right hepatectomy	Left hepatectomy	LLLS	Nonanatomic resection or segmentectomy
Shetty et al[14]	Case series	2011	South Korea	-	23	-	1	1	4	17	No data
Pan et al[18]	Case series	2012	China	3	4	1		3		5	A (4)
Aikawa et al[21]	Case series	2012	Japan	2	5	1	-	-	-	8	A (3) B (1) C (1)
Hu et al[22]	Prospective, randomized, controlled study	2014	China	18	-	-	-	-	14	-	No data
Wu et al[24]	Case series	2014	China	13	2	2	-	1	8	8	No data
Aldrighetti et al[25]	Case-matched analysis	2012	Italy	5	6	2	-	-	13	-	No data
Karabicak et al[27]	Case series	2016	Turkey	3	2	4	-	-	2	7	A (1) B (1)

HCC: Hepatocellular carcinoma; LLLS: Left lateral liver sectionectomy.