ReviewLangenbeck's archives of surgery2015
Robotic general surgery: current practice, evidence, and perspective.
Review in Langenbeck's archives of surgery, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Robotic versus laparoscopic general surgery in the emergency setting: a systematic review.Journal of robotic surgery · 2024Pooled it
- Robotic surgery in emergency setting: 2021 WSES position paper.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2022Pooled it
- Efficacy and reliability of active robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty compared with conventional total knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Postgraduate medical journal · 2019Pooled it
- Robotic versus laparoscopic simulation training for laparoscopic skill acquisition in novices: a randomized controlled trial.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Neural Minimum-Distance Estimation for Collision-Aware Operation of Multi-Arm Laparoscopy Surgical Robots Through Learning-from-Simulation.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Robot-assisted urological tumor surgery using the MP1000 system: A prospective, single-center, single-arm clinical study.Current urology · 2026Article
- Artificial intelligence and robotic surgery in emergency gastrointestinal procedures: a review of current evidence and future directions.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Review
- What Do Randomised Trials Reveal About Robotic Surgery? A Critical Appraisal Across Colorectal, Upper Gastrointestinal, Hepato-Pancreaticobiliary, and General Surgical Specialties.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Intelligent Ultrasonic Aspirator Controlled by Fiber-Optic Neoplasm Sensor Detecting 5-Aminolevulinic Acid-Derived Porphyrin Fluorescence.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- [Brief history and application prospect of robotic spine surgery].Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery · 2024Article
- The role of RObotic surgery in EMergency setting (ROEM): protocol for a multicentre, observational, prospective international study on the use of robotic platform in emergency surgery.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2024Observational
- Colorectal procedures with the novel Hugo™ RAS system: training process and case series report from a non-robotic surgical team.Surgical endoscopy · 2024Article
- Surgical management of thymic tumors: a narrative review with focus on robotic-assisted surgery.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2024Review
- Objective assessment of robotic surgical skills: review of literature and future directions.Surgical endoscopy · 2022Review
- Assessing the perioperative complications and outcomes of robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy using the National Cancer Database: is it ready for prime time?Journal of robotic surgery · 2022Article
- Robotic Surgery: At the Crossroads of a Data Explosion.World journal of surgery · 2021Review
- Studying Brain Activation during Skill Acquisition via Robot-Assisted Surgery Training.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Robotic-assisted surgery enhances the learning curve while maintaining quality outcomes in sleeve gastrectomy: a preliminary, multicenter study.Surgical endoscopy · 2021Article
- Minimally invasive surgery for choledochal cysts: Laparoscopic versus robotic approaches.Annals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery · 2021Article
- Variation in the utilization of robotic surgical operations.Journal of robotic surgery · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundRobotic technology commenced to be adopted for the field of general surgery in the 1990s. Since then, the da Vinci surgical system (Intuitive Surgical Inc, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) has remained by far the most commonly used system in this domain. The da Vinci surgical system is a master-slave machine that offers three-dimensional vision, articulated instruments with seven degrees of freedom, and additional software features such as motion scaling and tremor filtration. The specific design allows hand-eye alignment with intuitive control of the minimally invasive instruments. As such, robotic surgery appears technologically superior when compared with laparoscopy by overcoming some of the technical limitations that are imposed on the surgeon by the conventional approach. PURPOSE: This article reviews the current literature and the perspective of robotic general surgery.
conclusionsWhile robotics has been applied to a wide range of general surgery procedures, its precise role in this field remains a subject of further research. Until now, only limited clinical evidence that could establish the use of robotics as the gold standard for procedures of general surgery has been created. While surgical robotics is still in its infancy with multiple novel systems currently under development and clinical trials in progress, the opportunities for this technology appear endless, and robotics should have a lasting impact to the field of general surgery.
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