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ReviewJPRAS open2025

The evolution of digital surgery and the role of the surgeon.

Jesse C Selber, Forrest Bohler, Syena Moltaji

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Review in JPRAS open, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jesse C SelberDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital, 3601 W 13 Mile Rd, Royal Oak, Michigan 48073, United States.
Forrest BohlerDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital, 3601 W 13 Mile Rd, Royal Oak, Michigan 48073, United States.
Syena MoltajiThe Division of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, University of Toronto, 149 College Street, 5th Floor Suite 508, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1P5, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article outlines the evolution of digital surgery, tracing its trajectory from past to present and into the future. The authors discuss the rise of robotic surgery, the role of robotic surgery within plastic surgery, and the future of artificial intelligence in surgery.

Indexed as

Artificial intelligenceAugmented realityDigital surgeryPlastic surgeryRobotic microsurgeryRobotic surgery

Identifiers

PMID41497895
PMCPMC12766214

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