Surgery

Anatomical features of skull base and oral cavity: a pilot study to determine the accessibility of the sella by transoral robotic-assisted surgery.

The role of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in the skull base emerges and represents the natural progression toward miniinvasive resections in confined spaces. The accessibility of the sella via TORS has been recently described on fresh human cadavers. An anatomic study is mandatory to know if this approach would be feasible in the majority of patients regardless of their oral morphological featu...

Clinical evaluation of postoperative chemotherapy based on genetic testing in patients with stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer.

BACKGROUND: We performed a retrospective analysis to evaluate whether a postoperative chemotherapy selection method based on four tumoral gene expression tests would improve prognosis in patients with stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after surgery.

Input strategy analysis for an air quality data modelling procedure at a local scale based on neural network.

In recent years, a significant part of the studies on air pollutants has been devoted to improve statistical techniques for forecasting the values of ...

Multiclassifier system with hybrid learning applied to the control of bioprosthetic hand.

In this paper the problem of recognition of the intended hand movements for the control of bio-prosthetic hand is addressed. The proposed method is ba...

Age stratified comparative analysis of perioperative, functional and oncologic outcomes in patients after robot assisted radical prostatectomy--A propensity score matched study.

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to evaluate the perioperative, functional and intermediate term oncological outcomes of robot assisted radic...

Efficacy of robot-assisted fingers training in chronic stroke survivors: a pilot randomized-controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: While constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) is one of the most promising techniques for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke, it re...

Surgical Excision of Advanced Endometriosis: Perioperative Outcomes and Impacting Factors.

OBJECTIVE: To determine perioperative outcomes and factors impacting operating time, length of hospital stay, and complications of patients undergoing...

Transcutaneous Drainage of Gel-Like Substance after Application of Hydrogel Dural Sealant: Report of Two Cases.

Study Design Case report. Objective Incidental durotomy (IDT) is a common complication of spinal surgery. The use of collagen matrix graft along with ...

Robotic and clinical evaluation of upper limb motor performance in patients with Friedreich's Ataxia: an observational study.

BACKGROUND: Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) is the most common hereditary autosomal recessive form of ataxia. In this disease there is early manifestation ...

Transient but significant visual field defects after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in deep tRendelenburg position.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) is a minimally invasive surgical procedure for prostate cancer. During RALP, the ...

Trans-oral robotic surgery and surgeon-performed trans-oral ultrasound for intraoperative location and excision of an isolated retropharyngeal lymph node metastasis of papillary thyroid carcinoma.

BACKGROUND: Retropharyngeal metastases are uncommon but a well-known location for regional spread of well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WDTC). Sur...

Volumetric MRI analysis pre- and post-Transoral robotic surgery for obstructive sleep apnea.

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: To quantitatively measure volumetric changes in upper airway soft tissue structures using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) pre-...

The IDEAL prospective development study format for reporting surgical innovations. An illustrative case study of robotic oesophagectomy.

BACKGROUND: The early development of innovative surgical procedures is usually reported as retrospective case series, wasting opportunities to provide...

Minimization of curative surgery for treatment of early cervical cancer: a review.

Surgery is effective and useful for curative treatment of patients with early invasive cervical cancer, yet minimization of surgical procedures provid...

Robotic nasopharyngectomy via combined endonasal and transantral port: a preliminary cadaveric study.

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: The objective of this study was to determine the potential role of a surgical robotic system in nasopharyngeal surgery using bi...

External Iliac Vein Injury and Repair During Robotic-assisted Pelvic Lymphadenectomy.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate a surgical video wherein an incidental external iliac vein injury was encountered and repaired robotically during a pe...

What is it like to walk with the help of a robot? Children's perspectives on robotic gait training technology.

PURPOSE: Robotic gait training is an emerging intervention that holds great therapeutic promise in the rehabilitation of children with neuromotor diso...

Management of ovarian cancer in 14th gestational week of pregnancy by robotic approach with preservation of the fetus.

The objective of this study is to present a rare case of pregnancy complicated with ovarian cancer managed by robotic surgery. A 36-year-old woman suf...

Brain activation in parietal area during manipulation with a surgical robot simulator.

PURPOSE: we present an evaluation method to qualify the embodiment caused by the physical difference between master-slave surgical robots by measuring...

Incremental learning for ν-Support Vector Regression.

The ν-Support Vector Regression (ν-SVR) is an effective regression learning algorithm, which has the advantage of using a parameter ν on controlling t...