Robot-assisted resection of benign splenic tumors in children.

Journal: Langenbeck's archives of surgery
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Abstract

PURPOSE: Robotic surgery is becoming increasingly widely used in the field of pediatric surgery. The present study aimed to evaluate the safety and feasibility of robot-assisted resection of benign pediatric splenic tumors and to discuss the technical points.

Authors

  • Duote Cai
    Department of General Surgery, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, China.
  • Yan Ying
    Department of General Surgery, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, 310051, China.
  • Jiani Fan
    Department of Nephrology, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province Affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Province, Taizhou, 318054, China.
  • Yi Jin
    College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry UniversityBeijing, China; Center for Computational Biology, Beijing Forestry UniversityBeijing, China.
  • Zongwei Huang
    Department of General Surgery, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, China.
  • Yuebin Zhang
    Department of General Surgery, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, China.
  • Shuhao Zhang
    Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.
  • Qingjiang Chen
    Department of General Surgery, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Centre for Child Health, Hangzhou, China.
  • Zhigang Gao
    Department of General Surgery, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, China.