Surgery

Reply to Letter: "Does the Robot Provide an Advantage Over Laparoscopic Liver Resection?".

Robotic Versus Laparoscopic Hepatectomy: What Is the Best Minimally Invasive Approach?

Minimally Invasive Distal Pancreatectomy: A Single-Center Analysis of Outcome With Experience and Systematic Review of the Literature.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to analyze the learning curve for laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy (LDP) in our series and review the literatur...

Intraoperative Management of an Incidentally Identified Ectopic Ureter Inserting Into the Prostate of a Patient Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer: A Case Report.

Congenital variations in urinary tract anatomy present unique surgical challenges when they present without prior knowledge. Ectopic ureters occur as ...

[Robotic surgery in the management of early ovarian malignancy tumors].

OBJECTIVE: To apply robotic surgery of early ovarian malignancy tumors clinically and evaluate its feasibility in management for early ovarian cancer.

Online control of a humanoid robot through hand movement imagination using CSP and ECoG based features.

Intention recognition through decoding brain activity could lead to a powerful and independent Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) allowing for intuitive c...

Effects of prosthesis use on the capability to control myoelectric robotic prosthetic hands.

The natural control of robotic prosthetic hands with non-invasive techniques is still a challenge: myoelectric prostheses currently give some control ...

Shoulder-Mounted Robot for MRI-guided arthrography: Accuracy and mounting study.

A new version of our compact and lightweight patient-mounted MRI-compatible 4 degree-of-freedom (DOF) robot for MRI-guided arthrography procedures is ...

Master device for teleoperated needle insertion-type interventional robotic system.

This paper proposes a new master device for teleoperated needle insertion-type interventional robotic system. The 5-DOF master device is optimally des...

Redundancy optimization strategy for hands-on robotic surgery.

During hands-on cooperative surgery, the use of a redundant robot allows to address encumbrance issues in the Operating Room (OR), which can occur due...

Comfort and learnability assessment of a new soft robotic manipulator for minimally invasive surgery.

Laparoscopic surgeons perform precise and time consuming procedures while holding awkward poses in their upper body and arms. There is an ongoing effo...

Design and real-time control of a robotic system for fracture manipulation.

This paper presents the design, development and control of a new robotic system for fracture manipulation. The objective is to improve the precision, ...

Design and evaluation of a trilateral shared-control architecture for teleoperated training robots.

Multilateral teleoperated robots can be used to train humans to perform complex tasks that require collaborative interaction and expert supervision, s...

Embedded electro-conductive yarn for shape sensing of soft robotic manipulators.

Flexible soft and stiffness-controllable surgical manipulators enhance the manoeuvrability of surgical tools during Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), ...

Risk Factors for Postoperative Morbidity After Totally Robotic Gastric Bypass in 302 Consecutive Patients.

BACKGROUND: Totally robotic gastric bypass (robotic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, R-RYGBP) has been adopted in some centers on the basis of large retrospe...

Robot-assisted gastrectomy for early gastric cancer: is it beneficial in viscerally obese patients compared to laparoscopic gastrectomy?

BACKGROUND: The adoption of robotic systems for gastric cancer surgery has been proven feasible and safe; however, a benefit over the laparoscopic app...

Manual Electrode Array Insertion Through a Robot-Assisted Minimal Invasive Cochleostomy: Feasibility and Comparison of Two Different Electrode Array Subtypes.

HYPOTHESIS: To evaluate the feasibility and the results of insertion of two types of electrode arrays in a robotically assisted surgical approach.

Robotic Low Ligation of the Inferior Mesenteric Artery for Rectal Cancer Using the Firefly Technique.

PURPOSE: By integrating intraoperative near infrared fluorescence imaging into a robotic system, surgeons can identify the vascular anatomy in real-ti...

Robotic-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Early-Stage Lung Cancer: A Review.

This review evaluates the benefits and disadvantages associated with the use of robotic-assisted technology in performing lobectomies in patients with...

Implementation of a multidisciplinary robotic centre in a high-volume university hospital.

INTRODUCTION: We describe the initiation of a multidisciplinary centre for robotic surgery including the implementation of robotic-assisted procedures...