Abstract:Objective To compare the efficacy of laparoscopic fenestration (LF) and open fenestration (OF) in treatment of hepatic cyst from the perspective of evidence-based medicine. Methods Databases from CNKI,WanFang, CBM, PubMed and EMbase were collected, which were about LF versus OF in the treatment of hepatic cyst from inception to January 2017. Meta analysis was performed with RevMan 5.3 software. Results A total of 33 literatures involving 2,246 patients with hepatic cyst were included, among which were 1,145 cases in LF group and 1,101 cases in OF group. Meta analysis showed that LF group had shorter operative time, less intraoperative blood loss, shorter hospital stay, earlier recovery of gastrointestinal function and less postoperative complications, the differences were statistically significant (P < 0.05). Conclusions The clinical efficacy of LF in the treatment of liver cyst is superior to that of OF. Laparoscopic surgery is worthy of clinical promotion.However, due to the lack of English literatures, further studies are needed to confirm whether the treatment of liver cysts by LF has a significant effect or not in Europe and the United States.