Robotic Surgeries for Cancer in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Hope or Hype in Surgical Oncology?TUMOR surgeryLENGTH of stay in hospitalsSURGICAL blood lossMIDDLE-income countriesHEALTH services accessibilitySURGICAL robotsMINIMALLY invasive procedures...
Robotic Surgery for Bladder Cancer Avinash Maganty, MD1; Lindsey A. Herrel, MD, MS1; Brent K. Hollenbeck, MD, MS1 Author Affiliations JAMA. 2022;327(21):2085-2087. doi:10.1001/jama.2022.6417 editorial comment icon Editorial Comment related articles icon Related Articles Editorial Prote...
Surgeons at a leading military hospital in southwest China's Chengdu City have successfully performed a cancer surgery procedure using advanced robotic technology. "The introduction of the fourth-generation da Vinci surgical system can greatly improve the level of our hospital on surgical pro...
Robotic surgery has become a selling point for many medical centers across the country. Last year, robots were used in 422,000 surgeries. That's up 15 percent from the year before. CBS News A study out Wednesday compared two techniques for bladder cancer surgery: the use of robots, where ...
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Laparoscopic gastrectomy is a widely used minimally invasive surgery for gastric cancer. However, skillful techniques are required to perform lymph node di
Robotic Surgery in Prostate CancerProstate cancer is the second most common malignancy in men (excluding skin cancer) behind lung cancer, with more than one million cases estimated to be diagnosed worldwide in 2016. Radical prostatectomy (RP) has been the most widely used approach for the ...
Rush also offers the two other current surgical procedures for lung cancer. Video-assisted thoracic surgery, orVATS, involves operating through small incisions between the ribs, using an internal camera to view the surgical area. It also is a less invasive technique than open surgery, which makes...
Laparoscopic gastrectomy is a widely used minimally invasive surgery for gastric cancer. However, skillful techniques are required to perform lymph node dissection using straight shaped forceps, particularly for D2 dissection. Robotic surgery using the da Vinci surgical system is anticipated to be a pow...
Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) has become increasingly used to manage laryngeal and pharyngeal cancers, although the published experience in the larynx is small. Although there is burgeoning use of TORS for primary pharyngeal cancer, its application in the larynx is currently more limited. Successf...