Robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy

Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy

In the second stage, the patient is placed in a supine position for laparoscopic construction of the gastric conduit, placement of a feeding jejunostomy, and pyloroplasty. The third stage consists of mobilization of the cervical esophagus via the left neck, removal of the surgical specimen and gastric pull-up, and construction of an esophagogastric anastomosis. This phase of the operation is pe...

Robot-assisted minimally invasive lung brachytherapy.

BACKGROUND This paper presents a novel alternative for the treatment of lung cancer. The method consists of accessing the lung through small incisions in a minimally invasive manner in order to insert radioactive seeds directly into the lung using a robotic surgical system. METHODS An experimental test-bed to evaluate the feasibility of this approach has been developed. It consists of two sur...

Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (ramis)

The most widely used da Vinci a prototype robot, which was a master-slave manipulator with three arms, one for the camera and two for operating the instruments used in various fields such as urology, general surgery, gynecology, cardio-thoracic, pediatric and ENT surgery came in to existence in 1997. This has proved to be a breakthrough technology and stood the test of time since its origin. Th...

Minimally invasive, robot assisted cochlear implantation

Stefan Weber, Brett Bell, Nicolas Gerber, Tom Williamson ARTORG Center University of Bern Bern, Switzerland Peter Brett, Xinli Du Brunel Institute for Bioengineering Brunel University London, UK Marco Caversaccio Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery Bern University Hospital Bern, Switzerland David Proops, Chris Coulson, Andrew Reid Department of Otolaryngology Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmi...

Minimally Invasive Robot – Assisted Colorectal Resections