Table 3

Mean duration of surgery in published series of da Vinci cholecystectomy

StudyNo. of patientsMean duration of surgery, min
Present study1691
Vidovszky et al. (10)4877
Heemskerk et al. (11)12150
Giulianotti et al. (1)6685
Perez et al. (12)20152
Ruurda et al. (13)3597*
Kim et al. (14)1057
Talamini et al. (15)8167
Hashizume et al. (16)6118
Cadière et al. (17)4870
Chitwood et al. (18)2062
Hanisch et al. (19)595
  • * Indicated time is the sum of the median set-up and median surgical times.