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Table 1 Description of studies included in the meta-analysis

From: Recidivism of childhood cholesteatoma and surgical techniques: a meta-analysis study

Time

Author

Year

Location

Total patients

Affected ears

Patient demographics

No. of excluded ears*

Male

Female

Mean age (years)

 

Brown [16]

1982

Canada

98

98

60

38

9

-

Before 2000

Charachon and Gratacap [19]

1985

France

141

141

85

56

9.5

-

Lau and Tos [13]

1987

Denmark

120

122

82

38

8.8

26 no mastoidectomy

Edelstein et al. [15]

1988

USA

125

127

80

45

9.65

22 CC

Marco-Algarra et al. [20]

1991

Spain

52

55

25

27

9.8

-

Cruz et al. [21]

1990

Brazil

101

101

60

41

10.7

ـــــ

Schmid et al. [22]

1991

Switzerland

55

57

32

23

8

2 CC

Crellin et al. [23]

1991

UK

67

67

38

29

11

2

Mills and Padgham [24]

1991

UK

54

57

30

24

10

27 other procedures

Rigner et al. [25]

1991

Sweden

19

19

9

10

9

-

Stern and Fazekas–May [26]

1992

USA

53

54

30

23

12

ـــــ

Vartiainen and Nuutinen [27]

1993

Finland

50

54

36

14

10

10 no mastoidectomy

Parisier et al. [28]

1996

USA

209

216

136

73

8.6

51 no mastoidectomy

Stangerup et al. [29]

1998

Denmark

114

114

69

45

9

49 no mastoidectomy

Dodson et al. [7]

1998

USA

66

73

34

32

10

15 no mastoidectomy

Silvola and Palva [30]

1999

Finland

84

84

55

29

9.7

17 no mastoidectomy

During and after 2000

Darrouzet et al. [31]

2000

France

199

215

105

94

9.6

4 revision

Ueda et al. [32]

2001

Japan

56

58

30

26

11

6 CC

Gocmen et al [33]

2003

Turkey

114

114

71

43

13

ـــــ

Ahn et al. [34]

2003

South Korea

118

121

90

28

10

ـــــ

Schraff and Strasnick [8]

2006

USA

262

278

170

92

9

ـــــ

Shirazi et al. [5]

2006

USA

106

106

68

38

10

20 CC

Yung et al. [35]

2007

UK

50

52

29

21

10.5

11 no mastoidectomy

Drahy et al. [36]

2012

France

21

22

14

7

9.7

 

McRackan et al. [37]

2011

USA

493

517

304

189

9.78

57 no mastoidectomy

 

Osborn et al. [38]

2012

Canada

420

435

289

131

10.8

26 revision

 

Vincenti et al. [39]

2014

Italy

18

18

11

7

10.7

-

 

Sergi et al. [40]

2014

Italy

33

36

19

14

10

3 lost follow up

  1. USA United States of America, UK United Kingdom, CC congenital cholesteatoma
  2. *These ears did not fulfill inclusion criteria of our study