Recent analyses have shown that da Vinci robotic surgery achieves a 99% reliability rate, with technical issues rarely ...

At 24 months' follow-up, the only phase 3 randomized clinical trial to directly compare functional and oncologic outcomes between robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy and open radical ...

The tissue damage, anatomical distortion, and lack of surgical landmarks caused by the primary treatment present major challenges to surgeons performing salvage RARP.

In the two decades since the first robotic surgery was performed in Australia, both the computers that drive them and the ...

Radical retropubic prostatectomy. Before the surgery, you’ll get medicine called anesthesia either to help you “sleep” or to numb the lower half of your body.

The 30-day readmission rate was 3.6% for radical prostatectomy, 20.7% for radical cystectomy, and 7.5% for partial or radical nephrectomy. The 30-day mortality rate, unrelated to the procedure ...

A population-based random sample was drawn from the 20% Medicare claims files for August 1, 2008, through December 31, 2008. Participants had hospital and physician claims for radical prostatectomy ...

Although first described in 1991, 2 laparoscopic radical prostatectomy received little attention until reports from France in 2000 showed not only the feasibility of the procedure but also some ...

7. Esteban F, Menoyo A, Abrante A. Critical analysis of robotic surgery for laryngeal tumours [published online March 10, 2014]. Acta Otorrinolaringol Esp. pii:S0001-6519 (14)00031-4.

Surgery to remove prostate cancer Surgery is one of the main treatments for prostate cancer. You usually have surgery to remove your prostate gland. This is a radical prostatectomy. A radical ...