[Robotics and gastrointestinal surgery].
Robotics are now being used in all surgical fields. Because of increased intra-abdominal articulations while operating through small incisions, robotics are increasingly being used in a large number of visceral and solid organ operations including surgery on the gallbladder, esophagus, stomach, intestines, colon, and rectum as well as for the endocrine organs. As a specialty, robotics should continue to grow. As the robotic era invades the field of general surgeon, more and more complex procedures would be able to be approached through small incision. As technology catches up with our imagination, robotic instruments and 3D monitoring will become routine, and continue to improve patient care by providing surgeons with most precise, least traumatic ways of treating surgical disease.
Lee
Woo Jung
WJ
Department of General Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. wjlee@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
D013505:Digestive System Surgical Procedures; D006801:Humans; D012371:Robotics