ReviewJournal of robotic surgery2018
Robotically assisted thymectomy: a review of the literature.
Review in Journal of robotic surgery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Learning Curve of Robot-Assisted Thymectomy: Single Surgeon's 7-Year Experience.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- The role of minimally invasive surgery in the management of giant mediastinal tumors: a narrative review.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2022Review
- Thymic Epithelial Tumors as a Model of Networking: Development of a Synergistic Strategy for Clinical and Translational Research Purposes.Frontiers in oncology · 2020Article
- Robotic-assisted thymectomy for early-stage thymoma: a propensity-score matched analysis.Journal of robotic surgery · 2018Article
- Robot-assisted surgery for posterior mediastinal mass.Journal of thoracic disease · 2017Article
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Abstract
The aim of this literature review is to see where the robotic thymectomy stands nowadays. A thorough search of the PubMed revealed eighty-two related articles which reviewed comprehensively. The zero intraoperative mortality, the minimal intraoperative morbidity, as well as the recorded recurrence rate of 0-11.1% and complete stable remission rate of 0-40% suggests that the robotic-assisted thymectomy is a feasible, safe and an upcoming procedure. However, the lack of prospective randomized controlled trials prevents this technique to become the standard approach for the nonce.
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