title: Are you ready to take off as a robo-surgeon?
abstract: Robotic-assisted surgery is the latest iteration toward less invasive techniques. Surgeons have slowly adapted minimally invasive and robotics techniques into their armamentarium. We have developed a robotic cardiac surgery program in Japan that utilizes the da Vinci Surgical System, allowing the surgeon to perform complex procedures through 5-mm port sites rather than a traditional median sternotomy. In this rapidly evolving field, we review the evolution and clinical results of roboticassisted surgery and take a look at the other general surgical procedures for which da Vinci currently being used.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic and General Surgery, Kanazawa University Hospital, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, 920-8641, Japan.
authors.forename: Go
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D012371:Robotics