Robotic-Assisted Transabdominal Inferior Retroperitoneal Approach: an Alternative to Cattell-Braash Maneuver.

Journal: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The Cattell-Braasch maneuver has been widely used to provide adequate exposure for aorto-caval space (ACS) since the 1960s. Given its requirement of complex visceral mobilization and significant physiological disturbance, we proposed a new alternative surgical technique to access ACS: the transabdominal inferior retroperitoneal approach (TIRA) with robotic assistance.

Authors

  • S Jennifer Wang
    Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Jiping Wang