The severity of postoperative complications after robotic versus laparoscopic surgery for rectal cancer: A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression

• Yanlei Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yanlei Wang, Yanfei Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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• Yanfei Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yanlei Wang, Yanfei Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Nursing, Capital Medical University, You An Men, Beijing, China

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• Gaoyang Han,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhengzhou Central Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Henan, China

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• Bo Yi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 1459082987@qq.com (SZ); leonyi1997@aliyun.com (BY)

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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• Shaihong Zhu

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 1459082987@qq.com (SZ); leonyi1997@aliyun.com (BY)

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0893-4046

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