Surgery

Patch-based classification of gallbladder wall vascularity from laparoscopic images using deep learning.

PURPOSE: In this study, we propose a deep learning approach for assessment of gallbladder (GB) wall ...

Ready for the robot? A cross-sectional survey of OB/GYN fellowship directors' experience and expectations of their incoming fellow's robotic surgical skills.

To describe OB/GYN fellowship directors' (FDs) observations, expectations, and preferences of incomi...

Thin-Slice Pituitary MRI with Deep Learning-based Reconstruction: Diagnostic Performance in a Postoperative Setting.

Background Achieving high-spatial-resolution pituitary MRI is challenging because of the trade-off b...

Predictive Factors for Blood Transfusion after Total Knee Arthroplasty.

 The present paper aims to (1) verify the incidence and volume of blood transfusion among patients ...

Robotic Vaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Hysterectomy for Benign Indications.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The Hominis surgical system is a novel robot-assisted system, designed specifically...

Formal robotic training diminishes the learning curve for robotic pancreatoduodenectomy: Implications for new programs in complex robotic surgery.

INTRODUCTION: The learning curve associated with robotic pancreatoduodenectomy (RPD) is a hurdle for...

Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 3000BC to 1850: early instruments for viewing body cavities.

Surgeons and their patients recognise that one of the major advances in surgical technique over the ...

A study on autonomous suturing task assignment in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery.

BACKGROUND: Sutures are a set of standard actions which are accomplished by multi-instruments, resea...

Pediatric Adenoidectomy: A Comparative Study Between Cold Curettage and Coblation Technique.

The objective of the study was to assess endoscopic coblation adenoidectomy and conventional cold cu...

Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy for Nonmetastatic Urothelial Carcinoma of Urinary Bladder: A Comparison Between Intracorporeal Versus Extracorporeal Orthotopic Ileal Neobladder.

To compare surgical, oncologic, functional outcomes and complication rate between intracorporeal ne...

Synchronous Robot-Assisted Pulmonary and Urologic Resections for Cancer.

Synchronous cancers should be first evaluated at high-volume referral oncological centers. Multidisc...

Dual Arm Co-Manipulation Architecture with Enhanced Human-Robot Communication for Large Part Manipulation.

The emergence of collaborative robotics has had a great impact on the development of robotic solutio...

Trends in robotic surgery utilization across tertiary children's hospitals in the United States.

BACKGROUND: A growing number of tertiary children's hospitals are utilizing robotic surgical technol...

Analysis of 17 fentanyls in plasma and blood by UPLC-MS/MS with interpretation of findings in surgical and postmortem casework.

The opioid crisis is linked to an increased misuse of fentanyl as well as fentanyl analogs that orig...

Using Convolutional Neural Network with Cheat Sheet and Data Augmentation to Detect Breast Cancer in Mammograms.

The American Cancer Society expected to diagnose 276,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer in the ...

Conversion rate of laparoscopic or robotic to open sacrocolpopexy: are there associated factors and complications?

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the conversion rate of laparoscopic or robotic to open sacrocolpopexy and to...

Machine learning to predict the cancer-specific mortality of patients with primary non-metastatic invasive breast cancer.

PURPOSE: We used five machine-learning algorithms to predict cancer-specific mortality after surgica...

Prediction of obstetrical and fetal complications using automated electronic health record data.

An increasing number of delivering women experience major morbidity and mortality. Limited work has ...

Robot-assisted extraperitoneal para-aortic lymphadenectomy (RAePAL) performed with the bipolar cutting method.

OBJECTIVE: In comparison with laparoscopic transperitoneal para-aortic lymphadenectomy, the advantag...

Clinical Efficacies of the Minimal Retroperitoneal Approach for Infectious Spondylodiscitis: A Clinical Case Series.

INTRODUCTION: An anterior surgical approach for severe infectious spondylodiscitis in the lumbar reg...

Mesh erosion after robotic ventral mesh rectopexy, a minimally invasive solution - a video vignette.