Surgery

Impact of a robotic surgical system on hysterectomy trends.

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

Transareolar Robotic-Assisted Access to the Mitral Valve.

During the past years, a rapid development and refinements of robotic heart valve techniques have led to consider robotic mitral valve (MV) surgery safe, effective, and durable. Robotic MV surgery has proven to be a cost-effective and cost-saving strategy in MV operations, being associated with reduced morbidity and mortality rates. We present a novel video-assisted transareolar approach to access...

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

INTRODUCTION: We investigate the safety and efficacy of single-site robotic cholecystectomy compared to laparoscopic cholecystectomy at an inner-city ...

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 after distal pancreatectomy in the setting of a r...

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

Laparoscopic surgery has generated a revolution in operative medicine during the past few decades. Although strongly criticized during its early years...

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 postoperative management. Therefore, an artificia...

Robotic joint replacement surgery: does technology improve outcomes?

Osteoarthritis is a common disease that leads patients to seek total joint replacement (TJR). Component misalignment leads to failure of TJR. Computer...

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 observed for both the patient and hospital system...

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 rectal cancer compared with laparoscopic surgery a...

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 tissue balance in unicondylar knee arthroplasty (UKA...

A method to study precision grip control in viscoelastic force fields using a robotic gripper.

Instrumented objects and multipurpose haptic displays have commonly been used to investigate sensorimotor control of grasping and manipulation. A majo...

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 the case of general graphs. The patterns are rand...

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 proctectomy with total mesorectal excision for the surgi...

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 Asia and evaluate whether it could overcome the lim...

A review of training research and virtual reality simulators for the da Vinci surgical system.

UNLABELLED: PHENOMENON: Virtual reality simulators are the subject of several recent studies of skills training for robot-assisted surgery. Yet no con...

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 developed on minimally invasive, clinically relevant samp...

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 (general vs combined) on plasma levels of NGAL (Neut...

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 long-term outcomes between robotic- and laparoscop...

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

High cost of robotized complex and expendables is significant difficulty for its acquisition and introduction of robot-assisted operations. Critical e...

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 CT images of epilepsy patients following surgical...