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The aim of this meta-analysis is to compare clinical outcomes of RA PKP versus FA PKP. The Pubmed, Embase, and MEDLINE electronic databases were searched from January 1900 to December 2022, with no language restrictions for relevant articles. We extracted the preoperative and postoperative mean pain score and standard deviation from the included studies and pooled them using an inverse variance method. Statistical analyses were performed using functions available in the metafor package in R software. The results of this meta-analysis were summarized with weighted mean differences (WMDs). Our search strategy identified 181 references from the Pubmed, Embase, and MEDLINE electronic databases. We excluded duplicates and irrelevant references, after screening titles and abstracts. The remaining 12 studies were retrieved for full-text review, and, finally, we included five retrospective cohort studies from 2015 to 2021, comprising 223 patients undergoing RA PKP and 246 patients undergoing FA PKP. No difference was found in subgroup analysis based on the timing of postoperative pain assessment, despite the overall estimate of postoperative pain indicating a significant difference between the RA PKP and FA PKP groups (WMD, \u22120.22; 95% CI, \u22120.39 to \u22120.05). The long-term pain assessment revealed a significantly lower VAS in the RA PKP group than the FA PKP group at six months postoperatively (WMD, \u22120.15; 95% CI, \u22120.30 to \u22120.01), but no difference between the subgroups at three (WMD, 0.06; 95% CI, \u22120.41 to \u22120.54) and twelve months (WMD, \u22120.10; 95% CI, \u22120.50 to 0.30) postoperatively. Our meta-analysis revealed no significant difference in postoperative pain between RA PKP and FA PKP. Patients undergoing RA PKP had better pain improvement compared to FA PKP at 6 months postoperatively. However, further studies focusing on long-term outcomes in patients undergoing RA PKP are warranted to clarify its benefit, given the small number of included studies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina59040662","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,27]],"date-time":"2023-03-27T05:34:30Z","timestamp":1679895270000},"page":"662","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Robot-Assisted Kyphoplasty versus Fluoroscopy-Assisted Kyphoplasty: A Meta-Analysis of Postoperative Outcomes"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"59","author":[{"given":"Yu","family":"Chang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 704, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wei-Cheng","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedics, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 235, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0763-8157","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kuan-Yu","family":"Chi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Education, Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei 110, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5689-6761","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Abel Po-Hao","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei 100, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shang-Wun","family":"Jhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua 500, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Li-Wei","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua 500, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chien-Min","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua 500, Taiwan"},{"name":"College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Dayeh University, Changhua 515, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Leisure Industry Management, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung 433, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"564","DOI":"10.5312\/wjo.v13.i6.564","article-title":"Managements of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures: A narrative review","volume":"13","author":"Patel","year":"2022","journal-title":"World J. 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