Robotic liver surgery.
Robotic surgery is an evolving technology that has been successfully applied to a number of surgical specialties, but its use in liver surgery has so far been limited. In this review article we discuss the challenges of minimally invasive liver surgery, the pros and cons of robotics, the evolution of medical robots, and the potentials in applying this technology to liver surgery. The current data in the literature are also presented.
1 Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA ; 2 Department of Surgery, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA.
Universe
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Leung
1 Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA ; 2 Department of Surgery, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA.
Yuman
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Fong
Robotics; hepatectomy; minimally invasive surgery