“…Besides less blood loss, our series showed a lower conversion rate (0% versus ranging from 10% to 14%) compared with previous reports of LRH without LHM (Gayet et al, 2007;Dagher et al, 2008;Medbery et al, 2014;Lainas et al, 2015), and a less operating time compared with ORH with LHM (Wu et al, 2010). Operative time and mortality in our study were comparable with reports of previous LRH with (Kim et al, 2016) or without LHM (Gayet et al, 2007;Dagher et al, 2008;Medbery et al, 2014;Lainas et al, 2015), as shown in Table 4.…”