Surgery

Cervical Scoliosis: Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes.

Study Design Retrospective study. Objective Cervical scoliosis is a rare condition that can arise fr...

Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block after robot-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy: a randomised clinical trial.

BACKGROUND: Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is widely used as a part of pain management afte...

Cortical feature analysis and machine learning improves detection of "MRI-negative" focal cortical dysplasia.

Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is the most common cause of pediatric epilepsy and the third most com...

Oncologic Long-Term Results of Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Thoraco-Laparoscopic Esophagectomy with Two-Field Lymphadenectomy for Esophageal Cancer.

BACKGROUND: Open transthoracic esophagectomy is the worldwide gold standard in the treatment of rese...

Teaching a Machine to Feel Postoperative Pain: Combining High-Dimensional Clinical Data with Machine Learning Algorithms to Forecast Acute Postoperative Pain.

BACKGROUND: Given their ability to process highly dimensional datasets with hundreds of variables, m...

Robotic ablation of atrial fibrillation.

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is an established treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF)....

Resident education in robotic-assisted vertical sleeve gastrectomy: outcomes and cost-analysis of 411 consecutive cases.

BACKGROUND: Robotic technology is increasingly prevalent in bariatric surgery, yet there are nationa...

Transoral robotic excision of ectopic lingual thyroid: Case series and literature review.

BACKGROUND: Surgical excision of an ectopic lingual thyroid has traditionally been associated with s...

The learning curve in robotic distal pancreatectomy.

No data are available on the learning curve in robotic distal pancreatectomy (RADP). The learning cu...

Transoral robotic resection of an adult laryngeal haemangioma and review of the literature.

BACKGROUND: Haemangioma of the adult larynx is an uncommon, benign lesion. The optimal surgical meth...

MEMS sensors for assessing flow-related control of an underwater biomimetic robotic stingray.

A major difference between manmade underwater robotic vehicles (URVs) and undersea animals is the de...

Predicting propulsive forces using distributed sensors in a compliant, high DOF, robotic fin.

Engineered robotic fins have adapted principles of propulsion from bony-finned fish, using spatially...

Short-term clinical outcomes of robot-assisted intersphincteric resection and low rectal resection with double-stapling technique for cancer: a case-matched study.

Re: Completely Intracorporeal Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Augmentation Enterocystoplasty With Continent Catheterizable Channel (Urology 2014;84:1314-1318).

Robotic-Assisted Ureteral Re-implantation: A Case Series.

INTRODUCTION: Minimally invasive surgical techniques are currently used for numerous urologic disord...

Robot-assisted transaxillary thyroidectomy: surgical technique.

Robot-assisted transaxillary thyroid surgery avoids the need for a neck incision. It consists of thy...

Octopus-inspired multi-arm robotic swimming.

The outstanding locomotor and manipulation characteristics of the octopus have recently inspired the...

Measuring information transfer in a soft robotic arm.

Soft robots can exhibit diverse behaviors with simple types of actuation by partially outsourcing co...

On-water remote monitoring robotic system for estimating the patch coverage of Anabaena sp. filaments in shallow water.

An on-water remote monitoring robotic system was developed for indirectly estimating the relative de...

Re: Artificial Hand for Minimally Invasive Surgery: Design and Testing of Initial Prototype.

Surgical and oncological outcome of robotic surgery compared to laparoscopic and abdominal surgery in the management of endometrial cancer.

OBJECTIVE: To compare different techniques of minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopy and robotics) ...