Surgical technique in robotic right colonic resection.

Surgical technique in robotic right colonic resection. Minerva Chir. 2018 May 29;: Authors: Mangano A, Bustos R, Fernandes E, Masrur M, Valle V, Aguiluz G, Giulianotti PC Abstract Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has produced an important improvement in terms of peri-operative outcomes. Laparoscopic colorectal surgery presents comparable outcomes vs open approach from an oncological standpoint. However, there are some technical challenges/hurdles that laparoscopy may have. Worldwide there are still too many colonic/rectal operations carried out by the open approach. The robotic technology may be useful in solving some of the potential laparoscopic issues and potentially it may increase the number of procedures performed in a minimally invasive way. This is a description of our standardized operative technique for Robotic Right Colonic Resection. Conceivably, this manuscript may be useful to collect more repeatable data in the future. Moreover, it might be a guide to learn the robotic technique and also for the expert surgeons as an additional tool which they may find useful during their teaching activity. In this manuscript, taking advantage of the long and extensive expertise in minimally invasive colorectal resections, connected to a robotic experience started by Giulianotti et al1 in October 2000, we present our standardized technique for the robotic right colonic resection. The currently available literature data have proven that...
Source: Minerva Chirurgica - Category: Surgery Tags: Minerva Chir Source Type: research