Robot-assisted Vescica Ileale Padovana: A New Technique for Intracorporeal Bladder Replacement Reproducing Open Surgical Principles

ConclusionsOur preliminary results showed that ra-VIP appears to be a feasible technique for robot-assisted totally intracorporeal bladder replacement following robotic radical cystectomy.Patient summaryVescica Ileale Padovana (VIP) was first described almost 30 yr ago for bladder replacement after radical cystectomy. We report a step-by-step technique of robot-assisted VIP that follows the open surgical principles of detubularization and double folding, mixing the advantages of VIP with the benefits of the robotic approach.
Source: European Urology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: research