Surgery

An assessment of the physical impact of complex surgical tasks on surgeon errors and discomfort: a comparison between robot-assisted, laparoscopic and open approaches.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate, in a simulated suturing task, individual surgeons’ performance using three ...

Re: is robot-assisted radical prostatectomy safe in men with high-risk prostate cancer? Assessment of perioperative outcomes, positive surgical margins, and use of additional cancer treatments.

Impact of a robotic surgical system on hysterectomy trends.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the impact of introduction of a robotic surgical system on hysterectomy tren...

Transareolar Robotic-Assisted Access to the Mitral Valve.

During the past years, a rapid development and refinements of robotic heart valve techniques have le...

Single-Site Robotic Cholecystectomy at an Inner-City Academic Center.

INTRODUCTION: We investigate the safety and efficacy of single-site robotic cholecystectomy compared...

Successful Robotic Cystogastrostomy after Failed Endoscopic Drainage for Infected Pancreatic Fluid Collection Post Distal Pancreatectomy.

We are presenting the management of an infected pancreatic fluid collection that occurred six months...

Past, Present, and Future of Minimally Invasive Abdominal Surgery.

Laparoscopic surgery has generated a revolution in operative medicine during the past few decades. A...

Post-operative bleeding risk stratification in cardiac pulmonary bypass patients using artificial neural network.

The prediction of bleeding risk in cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) patients plays a vital role in their...

Robotic joint replacement surgery: does technology improve outcomes?

Osteoarthritis is a common disease that leads patients to seek total joint replacement (TJR). Compon...

Concepts in creating an evidence-based anesthetic protocol for robot-assisted laparoscopic pelvic surgery.

BACKGROUND: Robotic-assisted surgery has increased in popularity in recent years. Benefits have been...

Long-term oncologic outcomes of robotic low anterior resection for rectal cancer: a comparative study with laparoscopic surgery.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to evaluate long-term oncologic outcomes of robotic surgery for ...

High degree of accuracy of a novel image-free handheld robot for unicondylar knee arthroplasty in a cadaveric study.

BACKGROUND: Surgical robotics has been shown to improve the accuracy of bone preparation and soft ti...

Graph degree sequence solely determines the expected hopfield network pattern stability.

We analyze the effect of network topology on the pattern stability of the Hopfield neural network in...

Robotic-assisted laparoscopic transanal total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer: a prospective pilot study.

BACKGROUND: We performed a prospective pilot study of robotic-assisted laparoscopic transanal procte...

The first experiences of robotic single-site cholecystectomy in Asia: a potential way to expand minimally-invasive single-site surgery?

PURPOSE: Herein, we firstly present the robotic single-site cholecystectomy (RSSC) as performed in A...

Machine learning from concept to clinic: reliable detection of BRAF V600E DNA mutations in thyroid nodules using high-dimensional RNA expression data.

The promise of personalized medicine will require rigorously validated molecular diagnostics develop...

The effect of anaesthetic management on neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin (NGAL) levels after robotic surgical oncology.

PURPOSE: The main objective of this study was to compare the effect of two anaesthetic techniques (g...

Comparison of short- and long-term outcomes of an early experience with robotic and laparoscopic-assisted resection for rectal cancer.

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Robotic surgery is increasingly used for rectal cancer. We compared the short- and ...

[Cost price of robot-assisted and laparoscopic operations].

High cost of robotized complex and expendables is significant difficulty for its acquisition and int...

Segmenting the Brain Surface from CT Images with Artifacts Using Dictionary Learning for Non-rigid MR-CT Registration.

This paper presents a dictionary learning-based method to segment the brain surface in post-surgical...

[LAPAROSCOPIC AND OPEN RADICAL CYSTECTOMY FOR BLADDER CANCER].

Radical cystectomy is the standard method for treatment of muscle-invasive and locally advanced blad...