No dominance of laparoscopy and laparotomy

Advantage of laparoscopy

Disadvantage of laparoscopy

Cohen et al. (2013)

Laparotomy (n = 48) vs. laparoscopic surgery (n = 12) for ectopic pregnancy with hemoperitoneum > 800 mL

Preoperative and postoperative hemoglobin levels, blood transfusion quantity, complication frequency, and hospitalization duration

Amount of bleeding was lower and operative time was shorter

Not available

Beuran et al. (2016)

Laparotomy (n = 28) vs. laparoscopic surgery (n = 27) for ruptured tubal pregnancy and ruptured ovarian cyst with massive hemoperitoneum > 500 mL

Degree of hemoglobin level reduction, blood transfusion quantity, postoperative complication rate

Not available

Not available

Snyman et al. (2017, randomized trial)

Laparotomy (n = 69) vs. laparoscopic surgery (n = 70) for ectopic pregnancy involving rupture

Frequency of blood transfusion

Hospitalization duration and recovery duration were shorter and pain was lower

Operative time was longer (67.3 min vs. 30.5 min, p < 0.0001)