Figures & data
Figure 1. PRISMA flow chart of the meta-analysis.
Figure 2. Risk of bias summary: review authors’ judgements about each risk of bias item for included randomized controlled trials.
Table 1. Quality assessment of non-randomized controlled trials.
Table 2. Characteristics of the included studies.
Table 3. Patients and stone characteristics.
Figure 3. Forest plot showing stone free rate between supine and prone PCNL.
Figure 4. Forest plot showing operative time between supine and prone PCNL.
Figure 5. Forest plot showing fluoroscopy time between supine and prone PCNL.
Figure 6. Forest plot showing length of hospital stay between supine and prone PCNL.
Figure 7. Forest plot showing overall complication rate between supine and prone PCNL.
Table 4. Sensitivity analysis of randomized controlled trials.