• 1. Department of Gynaecology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830054, China;
  • 2. Department of Cardiac Function, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830054, China;
MACai-ling, Email: hymcl@sina.com
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Objective To systematically review the effectiveness and safety of laparoscopic operation versus laparotomy for stage I-IIa cervical cancer. Method Databases including PubMed, EMbase, Web of Knowledge, CBM, WanFang Data and CNKI were searched to collect controlled trials and cohort studies about laparoscopic operation versus laparotomy for stage I-IIa cervical cancer from inception to July 2014. Two reviewers independently screened literature, extracted data, and evaluated the methodological quality of included studies. Then, meta-analysis was performed using RevMan 5.2 software. Results A total of 3 RCTs, 4 non-randomized controlled trials and 11 cohort studies involving 2 020 patients were included. The results of meta-analysis showed that, compared with laparotomy, laparoscopy operation could reduce intraoperative blood loss (MD=-247.99, 95%CI -408.90 to -87.07, P=0.003) , the incidence of perioperative blood transfusion (OR=0.33, 95%CI 0.21 to 0.52, P<0.000 01) , haemoglobin level before and after surgery (MD=-0.98, 95%CI -0.13 to -0.93, P<0.000 01) , postoperative complication (OR=0.61, 95%CI 0.40 to 0.93, P=0.02) , and shorten postoperative exhaust time (MD=-17.41, 95%CI -32.79 to -2.03, P=0.03) and postoperative hospitalization days (MD=-2.51, 95%CI -3.25 to -1.78, P<0.000 01) . There were no significant differences between two groups in the number of pelvic lymph nodes removed, operative complications, as well as the recurrence rate, mortality and non-recurrence survivals after 2 to 5 years of follow-up. But the operation time of the laparoscopy operation group was longer than that of the laparotomy group. Conclusions Current evidence shows that compared with laparotomy, laparoscopic operation for early stage cervical cancer has less trauma, less blood loss, shorter hospitalization days and less postoperative complications. Due to the limited quantity of the included studies, more studies are needed to verify the above conclusion.

Citation: YANGLi, MACai-ling, ZHAOJun-da, ZHAOLing-chi, YEYuan-zheng. Effectiveness and Safety of Laparoscopy Operation versus Laparotomy for Early Stage Cervical Cancer: A Meta-analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2016, 16(2): 200-211. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20160032 Copy

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