ReviewJournal of thoracic disease2020
Robotic thymectomy for advanced thymic epithelial tumor: indications and technical aspects.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Robot-assisted versus open thymectomy a systematic review and meta-analysis of propensity score matched studies.Journal of robotic surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Robot-assisted thoracic surgery versus video-assisted thoracic surgery for treatment of patients with thymoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Thoracic cancer · 2022Pooled it
- Margin-negative resection and long-term survival following robot-assisted thymectomy for thymoma: A tumor size stratified analysis.JTCVS open · 2026Article
- Robotic Thymectomy Using the Single-Port Robotic System via the Subxiphoid Approach.Journal of chest surgery · 2025Review
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- Surgical and Neurological Outcomes in Robotic Thymectomy for Myasthenic Patients with Thymoma.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Intraoperative complications during robotic thymectomy and their management: a narrative review.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2025Review
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- Thymus Surgery Prospectives and Perspectives in Myasthenia Gravis.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- Robot versus video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy for large thymic epithelial tumors: a propensity-matched analysis.BMC surgery · 2023Article
- Robot-assisted thymectomy in large anterior mediastinal tumors: A comparative study with video-assisted thymectomy and open surgery.Thoracic cancer · 2023Article
- The role of minimally invasive surgery in the management of giant mediastinal tumors: a narrative review.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2022Review
- Current trends in three-dimensional visualization and real-time navigation as well as robot-assisted technologies in hepatobiliary surgery.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2021Review
- Robot-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Thymectomy.Journal of chest surgery · 2021Article
- Robotic surgery vs. open surgery for thymectomy, a retrospective case-match study.Journal of robotic surgery · 2021Article
- Long-term outcome in mediastinal malignancies: video-assisted thoracoscopic versus open surgery.Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
Robotic thymectomy is widely accepted as a valuable treatment option for surgical resection of thymic epithelial tumor as minimally invasive surgery has shown better early clinical outcomes than open surgery. Technical advances in robotic surgery have expanded the indications for robotic thymectomy, and the technique can be used to perform complete resection of advanced thymic epithelial tumor requiring concomitant resection of adjacent structures. To ensure complete resection, a multi-disciplinary approach, with thorough preoperative evaluation, must be adopted to determine whether a patient shows surgical indications for advanced thymic epithelial tumor. The early clinical outcomes after robotic thymectomy to treat advanced thymic epithelial tumor are promising; however, the long-term oncologic outcomes should be evaluated in the further studies.
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