Robotic Surgery Versus Abdominal and Laparoscopic Radical Hysterectomy in Cervical Cancer

Abstract

The first abdominal radical hysterectomy has been performed by Ernst Wertheim, one of the most famous 19th century surgeons, and still remains the basis for many surgeons nowadays. The technique was then modified by Meigs in 1950s. Piver and colleagues have described five classes of surgery based on the estimated risk of cervical carcinoma involvement; moreover, a new classification has been recently proposed by Querleu (Jhingran & Levenback, 2007; Martinez & Ramirez, 2009).