European journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP)
Jun 7, 2023
Nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) is used to improve cosmetic outcomes while maintaining oncological safety in patients with early breast cancer; however, NSM requires a higher level of skill and workload than mastectomy and is associated with long, vi...
Journal of geriatric oncology
Jun 7, 2023
INTRODUCTION: Robotic-assisted surgery in select patients has been shown to result in less peri-operative morbidity. Few studies have explored the association of robotic-assisted gynecology oncology surgery complication rates and increasing age. Our ...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Jun 7, 2023
Recent strides in the development of untethered miniature robots have shown the advantages of diverse actuation methods, flexible maneuverability, and precise locomotion control, which has made miniature robots attractive for biomedical applications ...
Science advances
Jun 7, 2023
Implanted electronic sensors, compared with conventional medical imaging, allow monitoring of advanced physiological properties of soft biological tissues continuously, such as adhesion, pH, viscoelasticity, and biomarkers for disease diagnosis. Howe...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 7, 2023
In recent years, there has been an expansion in the development of simulators that use virtual reality (VR) as a learning tool. In surgery where robots are used, VR serves as a revolutionary technology to help medical doctors train in using these rob...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 7, 2023
The ability to sense airborne pollutants with mobile robots provides a valuable asset for domains such as industrial safety and environmental monitoring. Oftentimes, this involves detecting how certain gases are spread out in the environment, commonl...
The American surgeon
Jun 6, 2023
INTRODUCTION: Robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy (rPD) is a complex operation with a reported learning curve of 80 cases. Two recent graduates of a formal robotic complex general surgical oncology training program have been performing rPD at our institu...
Journal of robotic surgery
Jun 6, 2023
We compared the surgical outcomes of robot-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy (RAH) and total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH). This single-center cohort study compared 139 RAH cases from January, 2017 to September, 2021 and 291 TLH cases between Janu...
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
Jun 6, 2023
BACKGROUND: Acute care surgeons perform more than 850,000 operations annually on emergency general surgery patients in the United States. Emergency general surgery conditions are associated with a disproportionate excess of patient complications and ...
Advanced healthcare materials
Jun 6, 2023
Here, the study presents a thermally activated cell-signal imaging (TACSI) microrobot, capable of photothermal actuation, sensing, and light-driven locomotion. The plasmonic soft microrobot is specifically designed for thermal stimulation of mammalia...