Table 1 Study type, patients’ characteristics and type of surgery
From: Chylothorax in thyroid surgery: a very rare case and systematic review of the literature
Author, Year | Case no. | Study type/Quality/Bias | Incidence | Age (years)/Gender | Diagnosis | Type of thyroid surgery | Neck Dissection | Intervention on thoracic duct | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Side | Type | ||||||||
Har-El, 1985 [27] | 1 | CR/Level 5/report. + publ. bias | N/A | 34/f | PTC | TT | Left | Centr. + lat. | ID + LIG |
Jabbar,1995 [7] | 2 | CR/Level 5/report. + publ. bias | N/A | 35/f | PTC | TT | Bilat. | Centr. + lat. | ID + LIG |
Lifante, 2007 [17] | 3 | RCS/Level 3/select. Bias | 2/52 | N/A | N/A | TT + ST | N/A | N/A | N/A |
4 | N/A | N/A | TT + ST | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
Bae, 2007 [25] | 5 | CR/Level 5/report. + publ. bias | N/A | 46/f | PTC | TT | Left | Centr. + lat. | no ID |
6 | 47/f | PTC | TT | Left | Centr. + lat. | no ID | |||
Tsukahara, 2007 [22] | 7 | CR/Level 5/rep. + publ. bias | N/A | 72/f | PTC | TT | Left | Centr. + lat. | ID + LIG |
Roh, 2008 [15] | 8 | PCS/Level 2/no bias | 1/82 | 63/m | PTC | TT | Left | Centr. + lat. | no ID |
Paliogiannis, 2009 [16] | 9 | RCS/Level 3/selection Bias | 2/94 | 68/f | ATC | TT + partial ST | Bilat. | Centr. + lat. | no ID |
10 | N/A | PTC | TT + partial ST | Bilat. | Centr. + lat. | no ID | |||
Han, 2009 [20] | 11 | CR/Level 5/report. + publ. bias | N/A | 42/f | MTC | TT | Bilat. | Centr. + lat. | ID + LIG |
Khurana, 2009 [23] | 12 | CR/Level 5/report. + publ. bias | N/A | 17/f | TC | TT | Bilat. | Centr. + lat. | N/A |
Tallón-Aguilar, 2010 [26] | 13 | CR/Level 5/report. + publ. bias | N/A | 38/f | PTC | TT | Left | Centr. + lat. | N/A |
Li, 2013 [12] | 14 | RCS/Level 3/no bias | 5/242 | 48/f | PTC | TT | Left | Lat. | ID + LIG |
15 | 65/f | PTC | TT | Left | Centr. + lat. | ID + LIG | |||
Tian, 2012 [13] Li, 2013 [12] | 16a | CR/Level 5/report. + publ. bias | 40/f | PTC | TT | Bilat. | Centr. + lat. | ID + LIG | |
17a | 38/f | PTC | subT | Bilat. | Centr. + lat. | ID + LIG | |||
18a | 31/f | PTC | subT | Bilat. | Centr. + lat. | ID + LIG | |||
Runge, 2014 [21] | 19 | CR/Level 5/report. + publ. bias | N/A | 40/f | PTC | TT | Bilat. | Centr. + lat. | ID + LIG |
Our case | 20 | CR/Level 5/report. + publ. bias | N/A | 54/m | PTC | TT | Left | Centr. + lat. | ID + LIG |