Robotic pancreatic surgery is no substitute for experience and clinical judgment: an initial experience and literature review. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Robotic pancreatic surgery offers technical advantages, and has been applied across many surgical specialties. We report an initial experience of 12 distal pancreatic resections for benign tumors from an established pancreatic center with previous general and biliary laparoscopic experience. Of a total of 12 patients, 7 were women; the mean age was 55.5 years, and the lesions included 8 distal intraductal papillary mucinous tumors, 1 insulinoma and in 3 a non-functioning neuroendocrine tumor. All operations were performed in between 90 and 180 minutes, and blood loss and hospital stay were minimal.

publication date

  • July 18, 2013

Research

keywords

  • Judgment
  • Length of Stay
  • Pancreatectomy
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms
  • Robotics

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3751116

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84882715029

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1186/1477-7819-7-67

PubMed ID

  • 23866984

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 11