Papers
53
Total Citations
803
H-Index
16
About
Maria Chiara Sighinolfi is a pioneering urological surgeon and researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotic surgery, optical imaging technologies, and prostate cancer management. She has made landmark contributions to the field of ex vivo fluorescence confocal microscopy (FCM), authoring the first application of this real-time optical imaging technology in urology for pathological examination of prostatic tissue — a paper that has garnered 85 citations since 2019. Her subsequent work on digital frozen sections with FCM during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (53 citations) has helped establish this technique as a transformative intraoperative tool. Sighinolfi has also emerged as a leading voice in robotic surgical innovation, publishing first-in-human descriptions of procedures using the Versius, Hugo RAS, and da Vinci 5 platforms, reflecting her institution's status as a high-volume, cutting-edge robotic center. Her contributions extend to clinical decision-making, including nomogram development for extracapsular extension prediction and genomic scoring in prostate cancer. With influential work on telesurgery (56 citations) and comprehensive platform reviews, Sighinolfi's research is shaping the future of minimally invasive urology on multiple fronts.
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