Learning curves in robot-assisted minimally invasive liver surgery at a high-volume center in Denmark: Report of the first 100 patients and review of literature.

Journal: Scandinavian journal of surgery : SJS : official organ for the Finnish Surgical Society and the Scandinavian Surgical Society
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Minimally invasive liver surgery is evolving worldwide, and robot-assisted liver surgery (RLS) can deliver obvious benefits for patients. However, so far no large case series have documented the learning curve for RLS.

Authors

  • Daisuke Fukumori
    Department of Surgery and Transplantation Rigshospitalet Copenhagen University Hospital Blegdamsvej 9 2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark.
  • Christoph Tschuor
    Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Swiss Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Center, University Hospital Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Luit Penninga
    Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Jens Hillingsø
    Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Lars Bo Svendsen
    Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Peter Nørgaard Larsen
    Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.