Practical tips for safe and efficient robotic cystectomy.
Robotic-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) is a challenging procedure that potentially offers the patient decreased perioperative morbidity. With careful patient selection and attention to surgical detail, one can learn to efficiently and safely perform RARC with extracorporeal diversion. As one develops further expertise with RARC, patient selection criteria can be liberalized and intracorporeal diversion can be performed. The accumulated experience of our institution and other high-volume institutions are reviewed with attention to the technical details that yield a safe and efficient robotic cystectomy.
Department of Urology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 170 Manning Drive, 2113 Physicians Office Building, CB#7235, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7235, USA, gregory_janda@med.unc.edu.
Gregory M
GM
Janda
Michael E
ME
Woods
Raj S
RS
Pruthi
D015653:Cystectomy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D018579:Patient Selection; D065287:Robotic Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*