Surgery

Using Contact Forces and Robot Arm Accelerations to Automatically Rate Surgeon Skill at Peg Transfer.

OBJECTIVE: Most trainees begin learning robotic minimally invasive surgery by performing inanimate p...

The Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital uniportal subxiphoid approach for lung segmentectomies.

BACKGROUND: Lung segmentectomy may be considered an oncologic equivalent treatment to lobectomy for ...

Superficial Vancomycin Coating of Bone Cement in Orthopedic Revision Surgery: A Safe Technique to Enhance Local Antibiotic Concentrations.

BACKGROUND: The use of antibiotic-loaded cement has become a well-accepted method to develop high lo...

Comparison of Intraabdominal and Trocar Site Local Anaesthetic Infiltration on Postoperative Analgesia After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to compare the efficacy of local anaesthetic infiltration to trocar woun...

HIV-Associated Facial Lipodystrophy: Experience of a Tertiary Referral Center With Fat and Dermis-Fat Compound Graft Transfer.

HIV-associated lipodystrophy is a common comorbidity in HIV-infected patients, having a profound im...

Robotic-Assisted Versus Manual Prostatic Arterial Embolization for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: A Comparative Analysis.

PURPOSE: Prostatic artery embolization (PAE) is a safe and efficacious procedure for benign prostati...

Virtual wall-based haptic-guided teleoperated surgical robotic system for single-port brain tumor removal surgery.

This article presents a haptic-guided teleoperation for a tumor removal surgical robotic system, so-...

Automated Robotic Dispensing Technique for Surface Guidance and Bioprinting of Cells.

This manuscript describes the introduction of cell guidance features followed by the direct delivery...

A cable-driven soft robot surgical system for cardiothoracic endoscopic surgery: preclinical tests in animals.

BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive surgery attracts more and more attention because of the advantages of...

Re: Successful Outcomes in Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty Using a Unidirectional Barbed Suture.

Corneal power evaluation after myopic corneal refractive surgery using artificial neural networks.

BACKGROUND: Efficacy and high availability of surgery techniques for refractive defect correction in...

Early surgery after angiography in patients scheduled for valve replacement.

Background There are limited data regarding the risks of cardiac surgery early after coronary angiog...

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) as a method for the toxicological analysis of synthetic cannabinoids.

Synthetic cannabinoids (K2, spice) present problems in forensic investigations because standard pres...

Current and emerging robotic assisted intervention for Notes.

Natural orifices transluminal endoscopic surgery (notes) procedures are limited by a number of facto...

Robotic inferior vena cava surgery.

OBJECTIVE: Inferior vena cava (IVC) surgery is uncommon and has traditionally been performed through...

Comparison of inflammatory responses following robotic and open colorectal surgery: a prospective study.

PURPOSE: Robotic colorectal surgery continues to rise in popularity, but there remains little eviden...

Laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy: current status and future directions.

In recent years, laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy (LPD) has been gaining a favorable position in t...

Automatic Valve Plane Localization in Myocardial Perfusion SPECT/CT by Machine Learning: Anatomic and Clinical Validation.

Precise definition of the mitral valve plane (VP) during segmentation of the left ventricle for SPEC...

Mandibular Reconstruction with Lateral Tibial Bone Graft: An Excellent Option for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Autogenous bone grafts are the gold standard for reconstruction of atrophic jaws, pseudoarthroses, a...

Methodology for designing and manufacturing complex biologically inspired soft robotic fluidic actuators: prosthetic hand case study.

We present a novel methodology for the design and manufacture of complex biologically inspired soft ...

Robotic quantification of upper extremity loss of independent joint control or flexion synergy in individuals with hemiparetic stroke: a review of paradigms addressing the effects of shoulder abduction loading.

Unsupported or "against-gravity" reaching and hand opening movements are greatly impaired in individ...