INTRODUCTION: Robotic systems provide a platform for surgeons to expand their capabilities, allowing them to perform complex procedures safely and efficiently. Within the field of benign gynecology, this has become an increasingly popular option sinc...
Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
Jun 28, 2021
OBJECTIVES: Robotic lung resections (RLRs) are conventionally performed using look-up views of the thorax from the caudal side. To conduct RLR with views similar to those in open thoracotomy, we adopted a vertical port placement and confronting upsid...
Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
Jun 15, 2021
Enabling technologies include surgical planning software, computer-assisted navigation, intraoperative three-dimensional (3D) imaging, and robotic systems. Presently, these technologies are in various stages of refinement. Spinal robots in particular...
Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
Jun 15, 2021
BACKGROUND: Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) has become a routine technique for treating benign and malignant lesions of the oropharynx with the advantage of reducing morbidity compared to open surgical techniques. However, TORS has not been used rou...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the perioperative, functional, clinical and morphological results of a standard robot-assisted nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy and with the use of the Retzius-sparing technique.
Zhonghua wai ke za zhi [Chinese journal of surgery]
Jun 1, 2021
To examine a new technique of robot-assisted nephroureterectomy without robot reldocking or patient repositioning. Patients diagnosed as upper tract urothelial carcinoma treated with this modality between November 2015 and January 2019 at Departmen...
Otolaryngologic clinics of North America
Jun 1, 2021
Transoral excision of parapharyngeal space (PPS) tumors has increased in popularity along with the increased use of robotic and endoscopic surgical technology. Here, the authors highlight the indications, techniques, outcomes, and complications of tr...
Minimally invasive surgery has rapidly evolved from the once novel laparoscopic approach to advanced robotic surgery. In the past few decades alone, robotic systems have gone from systems which were significantly limited to full-fledged platforms fea...
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