title: Technologic advances in Robotic Surgery.
abstract: Medical science has achieved enormous accomplishments during the past couple of decades. These advances encompass the list of techniques involving manipulations of DNA and stem cells to minimally invasive techniques. The recent advances in integration of computer sciences, biomechanics and electronic miniaturization have made it possible to make the surgical techniques less invasive and highly precise. Much progress has been made in integrating robotic technologies with surgical instrumentation, as evident by thousands of successful robot-assisted surgical procedures. Such advances will enable continued progress in surgical instrumentation and, ultimately, surgical care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02115, USA. twaseem@partners.org
authors.forename: Talat
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Waseem
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012371:Robotics; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*