ReviewJournal of thoracic disease2018
How to get the best from robotic thoracic surgery.
Review in Journal of thoracic disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Intraoperative Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography (Io-CEUS) to Detect Missed Lung Nodules During Robot-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery.Thoracic cancer · 2026Article
- Early results of robotic versus uniportal video-assisted thoracic complex segmentectomy: a propensity score-matched study.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Article
- Comparative clinical efficacy of three surgical modalities for the treatment of malignant tumours of the left hemicolon.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2025Article
- Robot-assisted repair of delayed traumatic diaphragmatic hernia: a case report.Journal of surgical case reports · 2024Article
- Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognostic Evaluation of Mediastinal Malignant Tumors.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Suggested robotic-assisted thoracic surgery training curriculum.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Review
- Mediastinal Parathyroid Cancer.Cancers · 2022Article
- Robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for large apical schwannoma in an obese patient.General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery cases · 2022Article
- A balancing act-the role of opioid-sparing anesthesia in enhancing recovery after thoracic surgery.Journal of thoracic disease · 2022Article
- Robotic transthoracic diaphragmatic hernia repair.JTCVS techniques · 2021Article
- Quality assessment of robot assisted thoracic surgical resection of non-small cell lung cancer: nodal upstaging and mediastinal recurrence.Journal of thoracic disease · 2021Article
- Objective analysis of postoperative air leaks can aid in decision-making, but does the use of digital drains really impact patient outcomes?Journal of thoracic disease · 2020Article
- The need for structured thoracic robotic training: the perspective of an American Association for Thoracic Surgery surgical robotic fellow.Annals of translational medicine · 2020Article
- Thoracic redo-robotic surgery (TRRS): a case series of a single centre.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2020Article
- Training in robotic thoracic surgery-the European way.Annals of cardiothoracic surgery · 2019Review
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Abstract
The application of Robotic technology in thoracic surgery has become widespread in the last decades. Thanks to its advanced features, the robotic system allows to perform a broad range of complex operations safely and in a comfortable way, with valuable advantages related to low invasiveness. Regarding lung tumours, several studies have shown the benefits of robotic surgery including lower blood loss and improved lymph node removal when compared with other minimally invasive techniques. Moreover, the robotic instruments allow to reach deep and narrow spaces permitting safe and precise removal of tumours located in remote areas, such as retrosternal and posterior mediastinal spaces with outstanding postoperative and oncological results. One controversial finding about the application of robotic system is its high capital and running costs. For this reason, a limited number of centres worldwide are able to employ this groundbreaking technology and there are limited possibilities for the trainees to acquire the necessary skills in robotic surgery. Therefore, a training programme based on three steps of learning, associated with a solid surgical background and a consistent operating activity, are required to obtain effective results. Putting this highest technological innovation in the hand of expert surgeons we can assure safe and effective procedures getting the best from robotic thoracic surgery.
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