Figure 4a: Forest plot comparing RALM to CLM on the basis of
EBL.
Figure 4b: Forest plot comparing RALM to CLM on the basis of
MOD.
Figure 4c: Forest plot comparing RALM to CLM on the basis of
LOS.
Figure 5a: Forest plot comparing RALM to CLM on the basis of
complication rate.
Figure 5b: Forest plot comparing RALM to CLM on the basis of
transfusion rate.
Figure 5c: Forest plot comparing RALM to CLM on the basis of
conversion to laparotomy rate.
Figure 6: Scatter-plot of the reported RALM MOD of all included
studies, with a trend line depicting a downward trend as time passes.
Table 1