Update on Robotic Gastrointestinal Surgery

• Other Authors: Milone, Marco (Editor), Bianchi, Paolo Pietro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Medicine; complete mesocolic excision; robotic surgery; right colectomy; robotic distal pancreatectomy; laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy; spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy; minimally-invasive distal pancreatectomy; systematic review; meta-analysis; rectal cancer; total mesorectal excision (TME); transanal total mesorectal excision (TaTME); robotic; robotic transanal total mesorectal excision (RTaTme); transanal surgery; colorectal; colorectal cancer; laparoscopic; learning curve; minimally invasive gastrectomy; robotic gastrectomy; laparoscopic gastrectomy; gastric cancer; esophagectomy; esophageal cancer; open surgery; robotic ventral rectopexy; rectal prolapse; pelvic organ prolapse treatment; total mesorectal excision; robotic low anterior resection; conversion; abdominal adhesions; laparoscopic surgery; robotic fundoplication; laparoscopic fundoplication; reflux; hiatal hernia; functional outcomes; n/a
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Since the introduction of robotic surgery in the early 2000s, several studies have demonstrated its safety and feasibility in various complicated procedures, including esophageal, gastric, and colorectal surgery (for both benign and malignant pathologies), hepatobiliopancreatic surgery, and gynecological and urological procedures.Robot-assisted surgery provides the advantages of a magnified tridimensional view and movement stability without a tremor, which facilitate a precise dissection. The EndoWrist instrument also facilitates dissection at difficult angles, thus enabling surgery in complex conditions.Even if some of the advantages of robotic surgery have been defined, we are still far from clearly recognizing precise indications for a robotic approach in gastrointestinal surgery.With this Special Issue, we aim to investigate the conditions that support the robotic approach in gastrointestinal surgery toward the definition of gold-standard robotic procedures, as established in urological surgery for prostatectomy.