Ref. | Country | Number of cases | Diagnosis | Patient position | Number of ports | Dominant hand of the surgeon | Hand using dissection | Comments | Operative time (minutes) |
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Fernandes [7] | Brazil | 1 | SGS | Supine | 3 | Left | Left hand via epigastric port | Grasping infundibulum by right hand via left mid-clavicular port | N/A |
Eisenberg [3] | United states | 1 | SGS | Supine | 4 | Left | Left hand via epigastric port | Grasping infundibulum by right hand via left mid-clavicular port | 85 |
Hall [9] | United Kingdom | 1 | SGS | Supine | 4 | Right | Right hand via left mid-clavicular port | Grasping infundibulum by left hand of the surgeon via epigastric port | 65 |
Patle [4] | India | 6 | SGS and acute cholecystitis (1 case) | Lithotomy (supine in the first case) | 4 | Right | Right hand via left mid-clavicular port (left hand via epigastric port in the first case) | Grasping infundibulum by left hand of the surgeon via epigastric port (by right hand via left mid-clavicular port in the first case) | 65 |
Lochman [5] | Czech Republic | 1 | Acute cholecystitis | Supine | 4 | Right | Right hand via epigastric port | The assistant grasped both fundus and infundibulum | 70 |
Arya [2] | India | 1 | SGS | Supine | 4 | Right | Right hand via epigastric port | The assistant grasped infundibulum | 95 |