Complete mesocolic excision in minimally invasive surgery of colonic cancer: do we need the robot?

ConclusionThe current data do not allow for a  reliable conclusion on the need of robotic surgery for CME, but show results which hypothesize an equivalence if not superiority to laparoscopy. Due to recently published technical improvements for robotic CME and supplementary features of this method, we suppose that this approach will gain in im portance in the future.
Source: European Surgery - Category: Surgery Source Type: research