Surgery

Monopolar, bipolar, tripolar, and tetrapolar configurations in robot assisted electrical impedance sensing.

Tissue recognition is a critical process during a Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) a...

Orthopaedic Trainee Views on Robotic Technologies in Orthopaedics: A Survey-Based Study.

The use of robotics is a growing area within the field of surgery, especially in orthopaedics. To da...

Clinical and oncological outcomes of open partial nephrectomy versus robot assisted partial nephrectomy over 15 years.

Partial nephrectomy (PN) is the gold standard surgical treatment for localized kidney cancer. The ob...

Robotics in spine surgery: systematic review of literature.

PURPOSE: Over 4.83 million spine surgery procedures are performed annually around the world. With th...

The impact of disclosure of conflicts of interest in studies comparing robot-assisted and laparoscopic cholecystectomies-a persistent problem.

INTRODUCTION: Accurate disclosure of conflicts of interest (COI) is critical to interpretation of st...

A Historical Perspective of the Evolution of Laparoscopic Surgeries in Urology.

Recent decades have seen the rapid progression of minimally invasive surgery in urology with continu...

Hinotori Surgical Robot System, a novel robot-assisted surgical platform: Preclinical and clinical evaluation.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of the hinotori™ Surgical Robot System in preclinica...

Efficacy of the Mercedes-Benz closure technique for vaginal reconstruction in female robot-assisted radical cystectomy.

INTRODUCTION: Vaginal reconstruction using the posterior vaginal wall is required following radical ...

Robotic surgery in gynaecology: Scientific Impact Paper No. 71 (July 2022).

The use of robotic-assisted keyhole surgery in gynaecology has expanded in recent years owing to tec...

Bridging 3D Slicer and ROS2 for Image-Guided Robotic Interventions.

Developing image-guided robotic systems requires access to flexible, open-source software. For image...

A new brain tumor diagnostic model: Selection of textural feature extraction algorithms and convolution neural network features with optimization algorithms.

Brain tumors are one of the most dangerous diseases that affect human health and maybe result in dea...

The Surgical Learning Curve for Biochemical Recurrence After Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND: Improved cancer control with increasing surgical experience-the learning curve-was demon...

Technical, functional, and oncological validity of robot-assisted total-intersphincteric resection (T-ISR) for lower rectal cancer.

BACKGROUND: Few studies fairly compared anorectal function and prognostic outcomes between patients ...

Development and external validation of predictive algorithms for six-week mortality in spinal metastasis using 4,304 patients from five institutions.

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Historically, spine surgeons used expected postoperative survival of 3-months to...

A commentary on "Robot-assisted kidney transplantation as a minimally invasive approach for kidney transplant recipients: A systematic review and meta-analyses" [Int. J. Surg. 99 (2022) 106264].

Marvin: An Innovative Omni-Directional Robotic Assistant for Domestic Environments.

Population aging and pandemics have been shown to cause the isolation of elderly people in their hou...

Multifunctional Fiber-Enabled Intelligent Health Agents.

The application of wearable devices is promoting the development toward digitization and intelligenc...

Beyond Efficiency: Surface Electromyography Enables Further Insights into the Surgical Movements of Urologists.

Surgical skill evaluation while performing minimally invasive surgeries is a highly complex task. I...

Effect of process parameters on the temperature changes during robotic bone drilling.

In medical surgery, bone drilling is an inevitable procedure. The thermal necrosis in the drilling p...

Pedicle Screw Placement in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Comparison between Robotics Coupled with Navigation versus the Freehand Technique.

(1) Background: Robotics coupled with navigation (RAN) is a modern surgical platform shown to increa...

Robot-assisted transperitoneal reconstruction of a retrocaval ureter: A report of two cases.

A retrocaval ureter (RCU) is a rare cause of congenital ureteral obstruction that often requires sur...