Surgery

Improved perioperative outcomes and reduced inflammatory stress response in malignant robot-assisted colorectal resections: a retrospective cohort study of 298 patients.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted surgery is increasingly implemented for the resection of colorectal cance...

Multidisciplinary Approach to Robotic Resection of Abdominal Wall Endometriosis and Mesh Repair.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate a technique for robot-assisted laparoscopic excision of abdominal wa...

Enabling Autonomous Colonoscopy Intervention Using a Robotic Endoscope Platform.

OBJECTIVE: Robotic endoscopes have the potential to dramatically improve endoscopy procedures, howev...

Robot-assisted Extraperitoneal Para-aortic Lymphadenectomy Is Associated with Fewer Surgical Complications: A Post Hoc Analysis of the STELLA-2 Randomized Trial.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate if extraperitoneal para-aortic lymphadenectomy (PALND) using a robot-as...

Is there a difference between navigated and non-navigated robot cohorts in robot-assisted spine surgery? A multicenter, propensity-matched analysis of 2,800 screws and 372 patients.

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Robot-assisted spine surgery continues to rapidly develop as evidenced by the gr...

Impact of the Implementation of the EAU Guidelines Recommendation on Reporting and Grading of Complications in Patients Undergoing Robot-assisted Radical Cystectomy: A Systematic Review.

In 2012, the European Association of Urology (EAU) Ad Hoc Panel proposed a standardised methodology ...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy for endometrial cancer in a patient with Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome.

Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome, a rare Mullerian duct anomaly, includes a triad of uterine didelp...

State-of-the-art reviews predictive modeling in adult spinal deformity: applications of advanced analytics.

Adult spinal deformity (ASD) is a complex and heterogeneous disease that can severely impact patient...

Force-Free Control for Direct Teaching of a Surgical Assistant Robot End Effector with Wire-Driven Bidirectional Telescopic Mechanism.

This paper shows the design and modeling of an end effector with a bidirectional telescopic mechanis...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery for treatment of urinary tract stones in children: report of a multicenter international experience.

This study aimed to report a multi-institutional experience with robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery...

[Robot-assisted laparoscopic bladder diverticulum resection (RABDR)].

AIMS: Since October 2018, urinary bladder diverticulum resections at our Department of Urology have ...

Efficiency in image-guided robotic and conventional camera steering: a prospective randomized controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: Robotic camera steering systems have been developed to facilitate endoscopic surgery. In...

Greater Renal Function Benefit from Enucleation Technique for More Complex Renal Tumors in Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy.

Tumor enucleation technique in robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) reportedly contributes to ...

Commentary: Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) and robotic-assisted esophagectomy (RAMIE): We need high-volume surgeons, more science, and more robots!

Deep Learning for Hemorrhagic Lesion Detection and Segmentation on Brain CT Images.

Stroke is an acute cerebral vascular disease that is likely to cause long-term disabilities and deat...

Robotic single-site versus multiport radical hysterectomy in early stage cervical cancer: An analysis of 62 cases from a single institution.

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to compare the surgical outcomes and cost of robotic single-site radica...

Totally robotic intracorporeal Monti-Yang continent ileovesicostomy in patient with previous robotic surgery-Technique description.

We present a video case report of a pediatric patient with previous robotic abdominal surgery who un...

Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Versus Transperitoneal Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Approaches for Extended Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection During Radical Prostatectomy.

We aim to directly compare the feasibility and safety of extended pelvic lymph node dissection (PLN...

Digital Frozen Sections with Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy During Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy: Surgical Technique.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) involves a tradeoff between oncological cont...

A Novel Method to Gently Mix and Uniformly Suspend Particulates for Automated Assays.

The SpinVessel system provides a methodology using pulsed radial flow to gently mix and uniformly su...

Robot-assisted versus open radical cystectomy: A cohort study on perioperative outcomes accounting for stage selection bias and surgical experience.

BACKGROUND: Most comparisons of robot-assisted (RARC) versus open radical cystectomy (ORC) for uroth...