Surgery

Impact of robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy on the management of general anesthesia: efficacy of blood withdrawal during a steep Trendelenburg position.

INTRODUCTION: Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) is being increasingly used. However, ...

Robotic-assisted pelvic lymph node dissection for prostate cancer: frequency of nodal metastases and oncological outcomes.

PURPOSE: Limited data are available regarding the oncologic efficacy of pelvic lymph node dissection...

Port-site metastases in patients with gynecological cancer after robot-assisted operations.

INTRODUCTION: Port-site metastasis is an extremely rare event in patients with cancer treated with r...

Robotic general surgery: current practice, evidence, and perspective.

BACKGROUND: Robotic technology commenced to be adopted for the field of general surgery in the 1990s...

Comparison of Intraoperative and Postoperative Effects of Lateral Epidural and Midline Epidural Anaesthesia in Patients Undergoing Unilateral Lower Extremity Operation.

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to compare lateral and midline epidural anaesthesia using a levobupivacaine-fent...

A Comparative Study of the Efficacy of IV Dexketoprofen, Lornoxicam, and Diclophenac Sodium on Postoperative Analgesia and Tramadol Consumption in Patients Receiving Patient-Controlled Tramadol.

OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to compare the effects of dexketoprofen, lornoxicam, and diclophe...

Invited commentary on comparison of robotics, functional electrical stimulation, and motor learning methods for treatment of persistent upper extremity dysfunction after stroke: a randomized controlled trial.

In this issue of Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Jessica McCabe and colleagues rep...

Conventional Laparoscopic vs Robotic Training: Which is Better for Naive Users? A Randomized Prospective Crossover Study.

OBJECTIVE: Robotic training (RT) using the da Vinci skills simulator and conventional training (CT) ...

A miniaturized robotic platform for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery: in vivo validation.

BACKGROUND: Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) involves accessing the abdominal...

Single site robotic sentinel lymph node biopsy and hysterectomy in endometrial cancer.

OBJECTIVE: Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy has been proposed as a safe and less morbid approach to ...

Evaluation of a novel flexible snake robot for endoluminal surgery.

BACKGROUND: Endoluminal therapeutic procedures such as endoscopic submucosal dissection are increasi...

A Technique for Vascular Control During Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Myomectomy.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To show and describe a unique method for improved vascular control when performing ...

Neural network operators: Constructive interpolation of multivariate functions.

In this paper, the interpolation of multivariate data by operators of the neural network type is pro...

Re: Editorial comment on early discharge after laparoscopic or robotic partial nephrectomy: care pathway evaluation: M. P. Laguna J Urol 2014;192:1639.

Spatiotemporal System Identification With Continuous Spatial Maps and Sparse Estimation.

We present a framework for the identification of spatiotemporal linear dynamical systems. We use a s...

Surgical safety and oncologic effectiveness in robotic versus conventional open thyroidectomy in thyroid cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: Although many experiences using the da Vinci Robot System have been reported by several ...

Robotic surgery in supermorbidly obese patients with endometrial cancer.

OBJECTIVE: Morbid obesity is a known risk factor for the development of endometrial cancer. Several ...

Robotic distal subtotal gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer patients with high body mass index: comparison with conventional laparoscopic distal subtotal gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy.

BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has emerged as a treatment of choice for early-stage ga...

Obesity and perioperative pulmonary complications in robotic gynecologic surgery.

OBJECTIVE: Robotic gynecological surgery is feasible in obese patients, but there remain concerns ab...

Single incision trans-umbilical total hysterectomy: robotic or laparoscopic?

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to compare the early surgical outcomes in patients who underwen...

Establishing a multi-institutional registry to compare the outcomes of robotic, laparoscopic, and open surgery for gastric cancer.