Because robotic surgery is still an emerging, albeit fast-growing field, there are no standards for credentialing surgeons to use the machine. That is left to each hospital. "It's a political hot potato because no one wants to come up with standards for everyone else. Nobody wants to restr...
prostate cancerrobotic prostatectomysurgical innovationSince the introduction of radical prostatectomy by Hugh Hampton Young in 1905, this surgery has undergone constant evolution. With increasing appreciation for the impact of functional preservation on cancer survivorship, urologists have been steadfast in ...
Previous studies have shown that robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) can be performed in men with high-risk prostate cancer with similar outcomes to that of open surgery. However, most of the literature consists of small case series and compares RARP outcomes to open outcomes from the lit...
In the past decades, the availability of robotic telemanipulators or robotic master-slave systems has facilitated robot-assisted surgery. In particular, the da Vinci platform (Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale (CA), USA), as the prime example, has become the new standard for the management of prostat...
Joshua Ellenhorn, MD, is a board certified surgeon with advanced training in the fields of surgical oncology, minimally invasive surgery, and robotic surgery. He runs a private practice at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California and is a nationally recognized leader in surgery, can...
Imaging has an essential role in the planning and delivery of radiotherapy. Recent advances in imaging have led to the development of advanced radiotherapy techniques—including image-guided radiotherapy, intensity-modulated radiotherapy, stereotactic bo
Joshua Ellenhorn, MD, is a board certified surgeon with advanced training in the fields of surgical oncology, minimally invasive surgery, and robotic surgery. He runs a private practice at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California and is a nationally recognized leader in surgery, can...
Conclusions: Visual and tactile assessment during open surgery by an experienced surgeon provides valuable information on when and where it is safe to preserve the neurovascular bundle in patients with EPE in the region of the NVB. Surgical approaches in which tactile sensation is muted or absent,...
Should we change how to assess early continence after rhabdosphincter reconstruction in patients undergoing robotic prostatectomy? Results of a randomized controlled trialdoi:10.1016/S2666-1683(20)33770-8L. RegisA. Salazar GabarroJ. PlanasA. Celma...
Joshua Ellenhorn, MD, is a board certified surgeon with advanced training in the fields of surgical oncology, minimally invasive surgery, and robotic surgery. He runs a private practice at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California and is a nationally recognized leader in surgery, can...