title: Robotic distal pancreatectomy with or without preservation of spleen: a technical note.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Distal pancreatectomy (DP) is a surgical procedure performed to remove the pancreatic tail jointly with a variable part of the pancreatic body and including a spleen resection in the case of conventional distal pancreatectomy or not in the spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this article, we describe a standardized operative technique for fully robotic distal pancreatectomy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the last decade, the use of robotic systems has become increasingly common as an approach for benign and malignant pancreatic disease treatment. Robotic Distal Pancreatectomy (RDP) is an emerging technology for which sufficient data to draw definitive conclusions in surgical oncology are still not available because the follow-up period after surgery is too short (less than 2 years).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  RDP is an emerging technology for which sufficient data to draw definitive conclusions of value in surgical oncology are still not available, however this techniques is safe and reproducible by surgeons that possess adequate skills.
authors.forename: Amilcare
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authors.lastname: Parisi
authors.forename: Francesco
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authors.lastname: Cirocchi
authors.affiliation: Department of Digestive and Liver Surgery Unit, St Maria Hospital, Viale Tristano di Joannuccio 1, 05100 Terni, Italy. veronicagrassi@hotmail.it.
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mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D059351:Organ Sparing Treatments / Q000379:methods*; D010180:Pancreatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D011379:Prognosis; D012371:Robotics / Q000379:methods*; D013154:Spleen / Q000601:surgery*