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63
Total Citations
2,786
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27
About
S. Duke Herrell is a pioneering urologic surgeon and researcher whose career has fundamentally shaped the adoption and validation of robotic-assisted surgery, particularly in the treatment of prostate cancer. His most influential work centers on robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP), where he conducted some of the earliest and most rigorous comparative studies evaluating its clinical outcomes against traditional open surgery. His research has systematically examined critical surgical benchmarks including positive surgical margin rates, intraoperative blood loss, postoperative pain, length of hospital stay, and long-term biochemical recurrence-free survival — collectively accumulating over 1,600 citations and providing an evidence base that helped legitimize robotic surgery as a standard of care. Herrell's landmark 2005 paper on the RALP learning curve (312 citations) offered surgeons and institutions invaluable guidance during a transformative period in surgical technology adoption. Beyond prostatectomy, he has extended his innovation into next-generation robotic platforms, developing minimally invasive telerobotic systems for transurethral bladder cancer intervention and hand-held robotic manipulators for natural orifice endoscopic surgery. His work bridges rigorous clinical outcomes research with cutting-edge surgical engineering, making him an influential figure for researchers and trainees seeking to understand both the evidence behind and the future of robotic minimally invasive urology.
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- 1Robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy: What is the learning curve?312 citations · 2005
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