Papers
39
Total Citations
1,922
H-Index
21
About
Patrick Pessaux is a distinguished hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgeon and researcher whose work has fundamentally shaped the landscape of minimally invasive and robotic surgery. His research spans three interconnected domains: robotic and laparoscopic pancreatic and liver surgery, augmented reality-guided operative navigation, and evidence-based guidelines for advanced surgical techniques. Pessaux has been instrumental in establishing the safety and feasibility of minimally invasive pancreas resection, contributing to the landmark Miami International Evidence-based Guidelines (2019), which has garnered nearly 480 citations and remains a cornerstone reference in the field. His comparative multicentre analyses of robotic versus laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy have helped clarify best practices where large-scale data were previously lacking. Perhaps most distinctively, Pessaux has pioneered the integration of augmented reality and real-time fluorescence imaging into robotic liver and pancreatic surgery, effectively steering the field toward what he terms "cybernetic surgery." His 2014 work on augmented reality-assisted liver segmentectomy was visionary, and subsequent studies on image-guided robotic hepatectomy have continued this trajectory. With multiple highly cited contributions across surgical oncology, emergency robotics, and hernia repair, Pessaux's cumulative impact makes him an essential voice in the evolution of twenty-first-century surgical innovation.
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- 2International consensus statement on robotic hepatectomy surgery in 2018214 citations · 2019
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- 4Robotic surgery in emergency setting: 2021 WSES position paper136 citations · 2022
- 5Robotic <i>versus</i> laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy: multicentre analysis121 citations · 2021
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- 7Augmented Reality and Image-Guided Robotic Liver Surgery62 citations · 2021
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