Title

Evolving Role Of Robotic Surgery In Prostate Cancer

Abstract

With the widespread diffusion of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, prostate cancer is nowadays frequently diagnosed in younger and healthier men, with organ confined disease. For patients with organ confined disease numerous treatment alternatives are now available. These patients desire treatments that not only provide excellent oncological and functional outcomes but that can also offer short hospitalization times, low morbidity and minimal convalescence while maintaining their quality of life. The introduction of the da Vinci robotic Surgical System (Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA) has been a key step towards minimally invasive approach to RP due to its technological peculiarities, including 10x magnified three-dimensional visualization, motion scaling with tremor filtration, improved surgical ergonomics and miniature wristed, articulating instruments with 7-degrees of freedom. The surgical technique is described in detail. We report on intra-operative and post-operative outcomes, complications as well as oncologic and functional outcomes from our series of robotic prostatectomy. We review and discuss contemporary published series of robotic prostatectomy. © 2013 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Publication Title

Essentials and Updates in Urologic Oncology (2 Volume Set)

Number of Pages

711-738

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84895385286 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84895385286

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