Laparoscopic versus open surgery for elderly patients with colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of matched studies

• Published in: ANZ journal of surgery Vol. 92; no. 9; pp. 2003 - 2017
• Main Authors: Luo, Weimin, Wu, Mengyuan, Chen, Yanling
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melbourne John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 01.09.2022; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Aged; Cancer; Clinical trials; Colorectal cancer; Colorectal carcinoma; Colorectal Neoplasms - complications; Colorectal Neoplasms - surgery; Complications; Disease-Free Survival; elderly; Humans; laparoscopic surgery; Laparoscopy; Laparoscopy - adverse effects; Length of Stay; Meta-analysis; Older people; open surgery; Operative Time; Patients; Postoperative Complications - etiology; Risk; Statistical analysis; Surgery; Survival; Treatment Outcome; meta-analysis; open surgery; colorectal cancer; elderly; laparoscopic surgery

Background To compare clinical and survival outcomes between laparoscopic versus open surgery in elderly colorectal cancer patients. Methods PubMed, Embase and Scopus databases were systematically searched. The review included studies that were either randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or observati...