Surgery

Cellular level robotic surgery: Nanodissection of intermediate filaments in live keratinocytes.

We present the nanosurgery on the cytoskeleton of live cells using AFM based nanorobotics to achieve adhesiolysis and mimic the effect of pathophysiological modulation of intercellular adhesion. Nanosurgery successfully severs the intermediate filament bundles and disrupts cell-cell adhesion similar to the desmosomal protein disassembly in autoimmune disease, or the cationic modulation of desmosom...

Robotic left colon cancer resection: a dual docking technique that maximizes splenic flexure mobilization.

BACKGROUND: Techniques for robotic resection of the left colon are not well defined and have not been widely adopted due to limited range of motion of the robotic arms. We have developed a dual docking technique for both the splenic flexure and the pelvis. We report our initial experience of robotic left colectomy using this technique for left-sided colon cancer.

The significance of spatial cognitive ability in robot-assisted surgery.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted surgery using the da Vinci Surgical System provides three-dimensional images. However, no research has yet been done on the...

Endoscopic robot-assisted simple enucleation (ERASE) for clinical T1 renal masses: description of the technique and early postoperative results.

BACKGROUND: Simple enucleation (SE) has proven to be oncologically safe. We describe the surgical steps and report the results of the Endoscopic Robot...

End-point impedance measurements across dominant and nondominant hands and robotic assistance with directional damping.

The goal of this paper is to perform end-point impedance measurements across dominant and nondominant hands while doing airbrush painting and to use t...

An Intelligent Robotic Hospital Bed for Safe Transportation of Critical Neurosurgery Patients Along Crowded Hospital Corridors.

We present a novel design of an intelligent robotic hospital bed, named Flexbed, with autonomous navigation ability. The robotic bed is developed for ...

Comparative analysis of the functionality of simulators of the da Vinci surgical robot.

BACKGROUND: The implementation of robotic technology in minimally invasive surgery has led to the need to develop more efficient and effective trainin...

A novel flexible hyper-redundant surgical robot: prototype evaluation using a single incision flexible access pelvic application as a clinical exemplar.

INTRODUCTION: The flexible endoscope is increasingly being considered as a surgical tool to enable innovative natural orifice or flexible access techn...

Perioperative outcomes of robotic partial nephrectomy for intrarenal tumors.

INTRODUCTION: Intrarenal tumors pose a unique challenge to surgeons due to the lack of visual cues on the kidney surface. Intraoperative ultrasonograp...

Robotic adherent cell injection for characterizing cell-cell communication.

Compared to robotic injection of suspended cells (e.g., embryos and oocytes), fewer attempts were made to automate the injection of adherent cells (e....

Simultaneous development of laparoscopy and robotics provides acceptable perioperative outcomes and shows robotics to have a faster learning curve and to be overall faster in rectal cancer surgery: analysis of novice MIS surgeon learning curves.

BACKGROUND: Laparoscopy offers some evidence of benefit compared to open rectal surgery. Robotic rectal surgery is evolving into an accepted approach....

Potential advantages of robotic radical gastrectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma in comparison with conventional laparoscopic approach: a single institutional retrospective comparative cohort study.

BACKGROUND: We have previously reported that laparoscopic approach improved short-term postoperative courses even for advanced gastric adenocarcinoma,...

In-hospital mortality and morbidity after robotic coronary artery surgery.

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to assess the impact of robotic approaches on outcomes of coronary bypass surgery.

Ocular complications in robotic-assisted prostatectomy: a review of pathophysiology and prevention.

Ocular complications reported after robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) include corneal abrasion and ischemic optic neuropathy....

Electroforming of implantable tubular magnetic microrobots for wireless ophthalmologic applications.

Magnetic tubular implantable micro-robots are batch fabricated by electroforming. These microdevices can be used in targeted drug delivery and minimal...

Artificial hand for minimally invasive surgery: design and testing of initial prototype.

BACKGROUND: Compared with traditional open surgery, minimally invasive surgery may improve recovery and patient satisfaction while maintaining surgica...

Machine learning-based augmented reality for improved surgical scene understanding.

In orthopedic and trauma surgery, AR technology can support surgeons in the challenging task of understanding the spatial relationships between the an...

Modified robotic-assisted thyroidectomy: an initial experience with the retroauricular approach.

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: New approaches for robotic-assisted thyroidectomy, including the retroauricular approach, were recently described. We have modi...

OpenIGTLink interface for state control and visualisation of a robot for image-guided therapy systems.

PURPOSE: The integration of a robot into an image-guided therapy system is still a time consuming process, due to the lack of a well-accepted standard...

Oncologic results, functional outcomes, and complication rates of transperitoneal robotic assisted radical prostatectomy: single centre's experience.

BACKGROUND: We report the operative details and short term oncologic and functional outcome of the first 334 Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy ex...