ReviewJournal of visualized surgery2017
Robotic thymectomy.
Review in Journal of visualized surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Complications of robot-assisted thymectomy: A single-arm meta-analysis and systematic review.The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS · 2021Pooled it
- Omitting Chest Tubes in Robotic Mediastinal Surgery: A Prospective, Protocol-Driven Analysis of Safety and Recovery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Multidisciplinary minimally invasive planning for synchronous breast cancer and thymoma: a scarless single-stage surgical strategy-a case report and literature review.Gland surgery · 2026Article
- Robotic thymectomy in myasthenia gravis: current evidence, outcomes, and future perspective.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2026Review
- Margin-negative resection and long-term survival following robot-assisted thymectomy for thymoma: A tumor size stratified analysis.JTCVS open · 2026Article
- Da Vinci Xi robot -assisted subxiphoid resection of thymoma and reconstruction of the left brachiocephalic vein: A case report.International journal of surgery case reports · 2025Article
- Robotic surgery vs. open surgery for thymectomy, a retrospective case-match study.Journal of robotic surgery · 2021Article
- First things first: A late robotic approach to anamnesis, in a patient with a thymus hematoma.BJR case reports · 2020Article
- Robotic thoracic surgery for resection of thymoma and tumors of the thymus: technical development and initial experience.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2020Article
- Comparison between thoracoscopic and open approaches in thymoma resection.Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
- Stage-related outcome for thymic epithelial tumours.BMC surgery · 2019Article
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Abstract
Thymectomy is the most frequent surgical operation involving the mediastinum, both for the treatment of thymic tumors and for the multidisciplinary management of myasthenia gravis (MG). Different surgical approaches have been described, either traditional open approaches or minimally invasive ones. Robotic thymectomy represents a further step in the evolution of minimally invasive surgery. Available data show that robotic thymectomy may be considered a safe and feasible operation, with encouraging long-term results in myasthenic patients and promising results in patients with early stage thymoma, both in terms of surgical and oncological outcomes. We present the surgical technique of robotic thymectomy that we apply for patients affected by myasthenia gravis and early stage thymoma.
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