Surgical Robotic Applications In Minimally Invasive Uro-Oncology Surgery

摘要

Surgical robots have begun to appear on the market in the last few years and have started to populate the operating rooms in large medical centers. These systems have already established their ability to augment a surgeon’s dexterity in minimally invasive procedures and have the potential to improve patient outcome, even though, for the moment, their cost is prohibitively high for widespread application. As surgeons become increasingly aware of the clinical benefits of these systems and costs are driven down by technological advance and availability, we foresee that robots will become standard operating room tools. Initial use of a handful of robots has already demonstrated their surgical potential. As technology evolves, robots may not only improve performance in minimally invasive procedures but may also enhance the performance of other existing procedures or even make possible entirely new kinds of operations.