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Table 1 The characteristics and results of the quality assessment of the included studies

From: The value of combined vein resection in pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic head carcinoma: a meta-analysis

First author

Publication year

Country

Study design

PDVR group

PD group

Newcastle-Ottawa Scale

No.

Age

Male (%)

No.

Age

Male (%)

selection

comparability

outcome

score

Lawrence E

1996

USA

cohort

42

n.a.

n.a.

231

n.a.

n.a.

****

*

*

6

S. D. LEACH

1998

USA

cohort

31

mean 66.0

19 (61)

44

mean 64.0

23 (52)

****

*

***

8

Tbomas

2003

USA

cohort

13

68.0 ± 13.0

7 (53.8)

23

67.0 ± 8.6

14 (60.9)

****

**

*

7

Ronnie T

2004

China

cohort

12

n.a.

n.a.

38

n.a.

n.a.

****

*

**

7

Jennifer F

2004

USA

cohort

110

64 (41–81)

69 (62.7)

181

64 (30–83)

106 (58.6)

****

**

**

8

Nicolas Carrere

2006

France

cohort

45

58.8 ± 1.7

32 (71.1)

88

61.5 ± 1.1

59 (67.0)

****

**

**

8

Isao Kurosaki

2008

Japan

cohort

35

66.2 ± 9.2

19 (54.3)

42

64.1 ± 8.8

24 (57.2)

****

**

***

9

Robert C

2009

USA

cohort

31

n.a.

n.a.

36

n.a.

n.a.

****

 

**

6

Paul Toomey

2009

USA

cohort

48

67.0 ± 9.2

27 (56.3)

172

68.0 ± 7.8

80 (46.5)

****

*

***

8

Yuji Kaneoka

2009

Japan

cohort

42

66.0 ± 1.0

24 (57.1)

42

65.0 ± 2.0

28 (66.7)

****

*

***

8

K Dilip Chakravarty

2010

China

cohort

12

62.9 ± 11.0

7 (58.3)

75

62.9 ± 9.8

50 (66.7)

****

**

***

9

VM.Banz

2011

UK

cohort

51

67 (46–80)

24 (47.1)

275

65 (27–83)

147 (53.5)

****

**

*

7

Anthony W. Castleberry

2012

USA

cohort

281

65.5 ± 11.2

138 (49.1)

3301

65.6 ± 11.4

1701 (51.5)

****

*

**

7

Ryan S. Turley

2012

USA

cohort

42

64 (40–78)

22 (62)

162

66 (32–87)

81 (50)

****

*

***

8

Reena Ravikumar

2013

UK

cohort

230

65 (43–80)

115 (50)

840

66 (27–84)

468 (55.7)

****

**

***

9

yoshiaki murakami

2013

Japan

cohort

61

n.a.

33 (54.1)

64

n.a.

32 (50.0)

****

**

**

8

Jaehong Jeong

2013

Korea

cohort

46

61 (41–81)

30 (65.2)

230

62 (32–80)

129 (56.1)

****

**

**

8

Vijay G

2013

USA

cohort

18

mean 67.2

6 (33.3)

43

69

21 (48.8)

****

**

*

7

Ali Aktekin

2013

Turkey

cohort

23

64.73

7 (30.4)

77

63.6 ± 11.8

49 (63.6)

****

*

***

8

Yi Gong

2013

China

cohort

119

59 (30–82)

72 (60.5)

447

59 (37–81)

295 (66.0)

****

**

**

8

Kaitlyn J. Kelly

2013

USA

cohort

70

66.8 ± 9.1

28 (40)

422

65.0 ± 11.3

214 (51)

****

*

***

8

F.wang

2014

Australia

cohort

64

66 (62–73)

34 (53.1)

58

67 (61–75)

30 (51.7)

****

**

**

8

Tan TO Cheung

2014

China

cohort

32

63 (35–86)

20 (62.5)

46

67 (37–82)

25 (54.3)

****

**

**

8

Alexandra M. Roch

2015

USA

cohort

90

66.4 ± 10.4

51 (56.7)

477

66.3 ± 10.4

274 (57.4)

****

**

***

9

H Elberm

2015

UK

cohort

230

n.a.

n.a.

840

n.a.

n.a.

****

*

**

7

Michael D. Sgroi

2015

USA

cohort

60

64.5 ± 10.0

32 (53.3)

87

67.4 ± 9.7

43 (49.4)

****

**

***

9

Wei-lin Wang

2015

China

cohort

42

59.4 ± 8.5

26 (61.9)

166

60.5 ± 12.3

115 (69.3)

****

*

**

7

Xin Zhao

2016

China

cohort

21

63.0 ± 7.5

13 (61.9)

85

63.5 ± 10.7

44 (51.8)

****

*

**

7

Joal D

2016

USA

cohort

194

65.0 ± 11.2

86 (44.3)

1163

64.3 ± 11.8

603 (51.8)

****

*

**

7

Pietro Addeo

2017

France

cohort

91

66.0 ± 10.0

52 (57.1)

90

69.0 ± 9.0

54 (60)

****

**

***

9

  1. *Scores obtained in this domain