Future directions of robotic surgery: a case study of the Cornell athermal robotic technique of prostatectomy

ScientificWorldJournal. 2006 Mar 19:6:2553-9. doi: 10.1100/tsw.2006.395.

Abstract

Robotic radical prostatectomy (RRP) has become an effective modality in the treatment of localized prostate cancer. We detail the experience at our institution and provide a perspective for future considerations of RRP with respect to improved preoperative imaging and surgical instrumentation.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Laparoscopes
  • Laparoscopy / methods*
  • Male
  • Operating Rooms
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen
  • Prostatectomy / instrumentation*
  • Prostatectomy / methods
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / surgery
  • Quality of Life
  • Robotics*
  • Surgery, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*
  • Surgery, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Surgery, Computer-Assisted / trends*
  • Temperature

Substances

  • Prostate-Specific Antigen