IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Dec 21, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Surgical graspers must be safe, not to damage tissue, and effective, to establish a stable contact for operation. For conventional rigid graspers, these requirements are conflicting and tissue damage is often induced. We thus proposed nove...
The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Dec 17, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Patient selection for robotically assisted mitral valve repair remains controversial. We assessed outcomes of a conservative screening algorithm developed to select patients with degenerative mitral valve disease for robotic surgery.
OBJECTIVES: To test contemporary rates and predictors of open conversion at minimally invasive partial nephrectomy (MIPN: laparoscopic or robotic partial nephrectomy).
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Nov 19, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Intraoperative palpation is a surgical gesture jeopardized by the lack of haptic feedback which affects robotic minimally invasive surgery. Restoring the force reflection in teleoperated systems may improve both surgeons' performance and p...
BACKGROUND: We have recently standardized upper mediastinal lymph node dissection (UMLND) using a microanatomy-based concept in thoracoscopic esophagectomy in the prone position (TEPP), and introduced robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (...
OBJECTIVE: This international multicenter study by the Upper GI International Robotic Association aimed to gain insight in current techniques and outcomes of RAMIE worldwide.