title: Image guided robotic surgery: current evidence for effectiveness in urology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Discussion of the evolution of image guided surgery (IGS) and its fundamental components and current evidence for effectiveness of IGS in clinical urology.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature search for image-guided robotic urology.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Current literature in image-guided robotic urology with its use in robot assisted radical prostatectomy and robot assisted partial nephrectomy are shown.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Image guided surgery can be a useful aid to improve visualisation of anatomy and subsurface structures during minimally invasive surgery. Soft-tissue deformation makes it difficult to implement IGS in urology but current studies have shown an attempt to address this issue. The feasibility of IGS requires randomised control trials assessing in particular its accuracy and affect on clinical outcome.
authors: MRC Centre for Transplantation, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, King's Health Partners, King's College London and Department of Urology, Guy's Hospital, London. kamran.ahmed@kcl.ac.uk.
authors: Anum
authors: A
authors: Pervez
authors: Kamran
authors: K
authors: Ahmed
authors: Stephen
authors: S
authors: Thompson
authors: Oussama
authors: O
authors: Elhage
authors: M Shamim
authors: MS
authors: Khan
authors: Prokar
authors: P
authors: Dasgupta
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D065287:Robotic Surgical Procedures; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*