Robot-assisted versus laparoscopic rectal resection for cancer in a single surgeon's experience: a cost analysis covering the initial 50 robotic cases with the da Vinci Si.

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Authors

• Luca Morelli
  General Surgery Unit, Department of Oncology, Transplantation and New Technologies, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
• Simone Guadagni
  General Surgery Unit, Department of Oncology, Transplantation and New Technologies, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
• Valentina Lorenzoni
  Institute of ManagementScuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.
• Gregorio Di Franco
  General Surgery Unit, Department of Oncology, Transplantation and New Technologies, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
• Luigi Cobuccio
  General Surgery Unit, Department of Oncology Transplantation and New Technologies, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
• Matteo Palmeri
  General Surgery Unit, Department of Oncology, Transplantation and New Technologies, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy. palmeri.matteo@gmail.com.
• Giovanni Caprili
  General Surgery Unit, Department of Oncology, Transplantation and New Technologies, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
• Cristiano D'isidoro
  General Surgery Unit, Department of Oncology, Transplantation and New Technologies, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
• Andrea Moglia
  Department of ElectronicsInformation and BioengineeringPolitecnico di Milano 20133 Milan Italy.
• Vincenzo Ferrari
  EndoCAS (Center for Computer Assisted Surgery), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
• Giulio Di Candio
  General Surgery Unit, Department of Oncology, Transplantation and New Technologies, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
• Franco Mosca
  EndoCAS (Center for Computer Assisted Surgery), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
• Giuseppe Turchetti
  Institute of ManagementScuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.

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