title: [Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy].
abstract: The beginning of the 21st century has ushered the new era of robotic surgery that now challenges conventional open surgery. Robotic surgery has been embraced by urologists who have applied it to complex surgical procedures such as radical prostatectomy. The revolutionary improvements provided by the Da Vinci Surgical System combines superior 3D visualization along with enhanced dexterity such as the endowrist allowing distal supranatural rotation of instruments, precision and control in an intuitive, ergonomic interface with breakthrough surgical dissection and suturing capabilities in confined spaces. Da Vinci Surgical System allows to perform nerve sparing radical prostatectomy techniques in various surgical plans (inter, intra and extrafascial) with a shorter learning curve and probably outcomes more rapidly reproducible by a less experienced laparoscopic surgeon.
authors.affiliation: Service d'urologie, Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite, Place Antide Boyer, Marseille, France. fbladou@mail.ap-hm.fr
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bladou
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Walz
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011467:Prostate / Q000294:innervation; D011468:Prostatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D012371:Robotics