Developed for scarless neck surgery and conceived as a modification of the axillo-bilateral breast approach, bilateral axillo-breast approach (BABA) is method extracervical endoscopic thyroidectomy that currently one most popular techniques in world. Since da Vinci robotic system was used to overcome many technical disadvantages BABA thyroidectomy, indications thyroidectomy(BABA-RT) could be la...

Recently, robotic surgical operations have been performed in many surgical areas because the oncologic results are almost the same as conventional surgery but robotic surgery requires an incision of only a few centimeters to approach the surgical site [1]. Thus, many patients with thyroid cancer choose robotic surgery because of reduced scarring [2]. A 39-year-old female patient with thyroid ca...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Our aim was to determine whether the use of routine cystoscopy increases lower urinary tract injury detection (bladder and/or ureter) after robotic surgery performed by gynecologic oncologists. METHODS A retrospective chart review of patients who presented for robotic hysterectomy from 2009-2012 was performed at 2 separate academic medical centers, one that performed...

INTRODUCTION Port site metastasis after laparoscopic surgery for cervical cancer is a rare phenomenon. METHODS We present a case report of isolated port site recurrence 4 years following laparoscopic surgery in a patient with node-negative, clinical stage IB1 cervical adenocarcinoma. RESULTS A 44 year-old woman presented with a necrotic cervical lesion. A biopsy of the mass revealed invasiv...

In tele-assistance a robot operates partly guided by a human and partly autonomously. Tele-assistance thus fills in the gap between full autonomy, and direct control by a human tele-operator. Instead of directly controlling the motor actions of a robot, in tele-assistance the human interacts with the robot using a deictic high level language. Pook and Ballard have implemented such a system usin...

Internal fixation is a widely used treatment method to repair bone fracture, which is one of the most common orthopedic trauma. However, in reaming of the intramedullary canal to facilitate insertion of a guiding rod by creating a surgical passage, severe disturbances such as increased local cortical temperature and elevation of intramedullary pressure can occur. These disturbances have resulte...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The introduction of robotic surgery offers patients and surgeons new options for adrenalectomy. Whereas multiport adrenalectomies have been safely performed using the robot, we describe our experience with the novel technique of single-port robotic-assisted adrenalectomy. METHODS We performed a matched-cohort study comparing 16 single-port robotic-assisted adrenalect...