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Keeping Realistic Perspectives on Robotic Use: Is It for Everyone?

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Robotic Approaches to Colorectal Surgery

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The use of robotic surgery has increased dramatically despite a paucity of data demonstrating clinical benefits of the technology. While the technical advantages of the da Vinci platform may facilitate a minimally invasive approach to difficult operations in confined spaces, many of the procedures for which it is being used could be accomplished more efficiently with conventional laparoscopy. Such is the case with segmental colectomy, where laparoscopic resection is quickly becoming the gold standard for benign and malignant disease. The da Vinci system may improve success rates of minimally invasive rectal resection, especially in select patients, but robotic colorectal surgery is not for everyone; not every patient and not every surgeon.

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  1. Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery Department of Surgery, Temple University Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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  2. Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angels, California, USA

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  3. Division of Colorectal Surgery, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, USA

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  4. University of California, Irvine Orange, California, USA

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Mustain, W.C., Champagne, B.J. (2015). Keeping Realistic Perspectives on Robotic Use: Is It for Everyone?. In: Ross, H., Lee, S., Champagne, B., Pigazzi, A., Rivadeneira, D. (eds) Robotic Approaches to Colorectal Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09120-4_23

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