Surgery

Subsphincteric Anastomosis During Laparoscopic Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy and Its Positive Impact on Continence Recovery.

To assess the interest of a new sphincter preserving anastomosis technique for continence recovery after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP). : We performed a monocentric single-operator study on 187 consecutive RALP. Patients were divided into two groups: Group 1 (standard anastomosis, until December 2017) and Group 2 (subsphincteric anastomosis [SSA], since January 2018). T...

Design and development of a non-contact robotic gripper for tissue manipulation in minimally invasive surgery.

This paper describes the design and testing of a gripper developed for handling of delicate and flexible tissues during minimally invasive surgery. The device operates on the Bernoulli principle for generating hight-speed flow between the gripper and product surface threby creating vacuum which lifted the product. The Bernoulli gripper, which is widely employed in automated production lines, is a ...

Lower Incidence of Postoperative Pulmonary Complications Following Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer: Propensity Score-Matched Comparison to Conventional Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy.

BACKGROUND: Whether robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIE) is more beneficial than conventional minimally invasive surgery (MIE) remains un...

User-Driven Functional Movement Training With a Wearable Hand Robot After Stroke.

We studied the performance of a robotic orthosis designed to assist the paretic hand after stroke. It is wearable and fully user-controlled, serving t...

Comparison of Support Vector Machine, Naïve Bayes and Logistic Regression for Assessing the Necessity for Coronary Angiography.

(1) Background: Coronary angiography is considered to be the most reliable method for the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. However, angiography is...

Hospital robotic use for colorectal cancer care.

The use of robotic surgery for colorectal cancer continues to increase. However, not all organizations offer patients the option of robotic interventi...

Experimental study of the optimum puncture pattern of robot-assisted needle insertion into hyperelastic materials.

The robot-assisted insertion surgery plays a crucial role in biopsy and therapy. This study focuses on determining the optimum puncture pattern for ro...

Real-time Augmented Reality Three-dimensional Guided Robotic Radical Prostatectomy: Preliminary Experience and Evaluation of the Impact on Surgical Planning.

BACKGROUND: Augmented reality (AR) is a novel technology adopted in prostatic surgery.

Robotic environmental DNA bio-surveillance of freshwater health.

Autonomous water sampling technologies may help to overcome the human resource challenges of monitoring biological threats to rivers over long time pe...

Accessory neuropathy after minimally invasive robotic mitral valve repair: Further evidence to support an inflammatory etiology.

Multi-level feature aggregation network for instrument identification of endoscopic images.

Identification of surgical instruments is crucial in understanding surgical scenarios and providing an assistive process in endoscopic image-guided su...

Robotic "Double Loop" Roux-en-Y gastric bypass reduces the risk of postoperative internal hernias: a prospective observational study.

BACKGROUND: Internal herniation (IH) is a potentially serious complication after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB). The aim of the study is...

Development of a High-Fidelity Robot-Assisted Kidney Transplant Simulation Platform Using Three-Dimensional Printing and Hydrogel Casting Technologies.

Despite the adoption of robotic donor nephrectomy, the steep learning curve of robotic recipient transplantation has hindered the implementation of a...

Evaluation of a stand-alone robotic camera holding system: technology that improves laparoscopy.

INTRODUCTION: In order to perform laparoscopic procedures, a surgeon requires an assistant to hold the camera. Problems with this approach include tab...

Robotic total intersphincteric resection with total mesorectal excision in low rectal cancer - a video vignette.

Retroauricular thyroidectomy with a single-arm robotic surgical system: Preclinical cadaveric study.

BACKGROUND: In this study, we evaluate a new flexible, single-arm robotic system in performing thyroidectomy via a retroauricular approach.

MR-Conditional Actuations: A Review.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most prevailing technologies to enable noninvasive and radiation-free soft tissue imaging. Operating a ...

Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in the Middle East: A report on the perioperative outcomes from a tertiary care centre in Lebanon.

OBJECTIVE: To report on the surgical, oncological and early functional outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) at our tertiary care ce...

Inguinal lymph node dissection in the era of minimally invasive surgical technology.

BACKGROUND: Inguinal lymph node dissection (ILND) is an essential step in both treatment and staging of several malignancies including penile and vulv...

Multispectral Imaging for Automated Tissue Identification of Normal Human Surgical Specimens.

OBJECTIVE: Safe surgery requires the accurate discrimination of tissue intraoperatively. We assess the feasibility of using multispectral imaging and ...