title: Use of robotic colonoscopy in patients with previous incomplete colonoscopy.
abstract: Conventional colonoscopy (CC) is the gold standard to diagnostic and therapeutic approach to colon. However, in few cases, cecal intubation could fail due to colon anatomy, patient compliance and physician expertise. Endotics robotic colonoscopy is a novel, safe, mini-invasive modality to explore the entire colon. Our aim was to assess, in a retrospective study, Endotics ability of cecal intubation in all cases in which CC failed.
  
  
  
  Between January 2008 and December 2012, 276 Endotics robotic colonscopy examinations were performed at the Gastroenterology and Metabolic Diseases Unit of Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy, in a series of consecutive patients who had undergone CC and failed cecal intubation.
  
  
  
  We assessed the cecal intubation rate in 102 patients addressed to Endotics after previous incomplete CC. Overall, endotics system was successful in 93.1% of the incomplete conventional colonoscopy cases (95% performance).
  
  
  
  Whenever the intended exploration of the entire colon with CC failed, the endotics robotic endoscopy represented a useful tool as it helped examine the entire colon in almost all cases.
authors.affiliation: Gastroenterology and Metabolic Diseases Unit, Department of Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy. r.sacco@ao-pisa.toscana.it.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tumino
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Parisi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bertoni
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bertini
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Metrangolo
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ierardi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cervelli
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bresci
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sacco
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002432:Cecum; D003113:Colonoscopy; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007441:Intubation, Gastrointestinal; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D065287:Robotic Surgical Procedures