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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2021

Review on Perioperative and Oncological Outcomes of Robotic Gastrectomy for Cancer.

Giuseppe Giuliani, Francesco Guerra, Lorenzo De Franco, Lucia Salvischiani, Roberto Benigni, Andrea Coratti

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Giuseppe GiulianiUSL Toscana Sud Est, Misericordia Hospital, 58100 Grosseto, Italy.
Francesco GuerraUSL Toscana Sud Est, Misericordia Hospital, 58100 Grosseto, Italy.
Lorenzo De FrancoUSL Toscana Sud Est, Misericordia Hospital, 58100 Grosseto, Italy.
Lucia SalvischianiUSL Toscana Sud Est, Misericordia Hospital, 58100 Grosseto, Italy.
Roberto BenigniUSL Toscana Sud Est, Misericordia Hospital, 58100 Grosseto, Italy.
Andrea CorattiUSL Toscana Sud Est, Misericordia Hospital, 58100 Grosseto, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMinimally invasive gastrectomy is currently considered a valid option to treat gastric cancer and is gaining increasing acceptance. Recent reports have suggested that the application of robots may confer some advantages over conventional laparoscopy, but the role of robotic surgery in clinical practice is still uncertain. We aimed to critically review the relevant evidence comparing robotic to standard laparoscopic surgery in performing radical gastrectomy.

methodsThe Pubmed/Medline electronic databases were searched through February 2021. Paper conference and the English language was the only restriction applied to our search strategy.

resultsAccording to the existing data, robotic gastrectomy seems to provide some benefits in terms of blood loss, rate of conversion, procedure-specific postoperative morbidity, and length of hospital stay. Robotic gastrectomy is also associated with a longer duration of surgery and a higher economic burden as compared to its laparoscopic counterpart. No significant differences have been disclosed in terms of long-term survivals, while the number of lymph nodes retrieved with robotic gastrectomy is generally higher than that of laparoscopy.

conclusionsThe current literature suggests that robotic radical gastrectomy appears as competent as the conventional laparoscopic procedure and may provide some clinical advantages. However, due to the relative paucity of high-level evidence, it is not possible to draw definitive conclusions.

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gastric cancerlaparoscopic gastrectomyminimally invasive gastrectomyrobotic gastrectomy

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PMID34357105
PMCPMC8306865

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