Patients have many concerns and decisions prior to surgery, and now choosing between a human doctor or a robot-assisted ...

Robotic cystectomy appears best suited for nonbulky tumors. Robotic assistance achieves comparable short-term oncologic outcomes to open surgery in carefully selected patients with low-stage disease.

Patients requiring intraoperative conversion from robotic-assisted radical cystectomy to open surgery have higher 90-day mortality rates and 30-day readmission rates. Intraoperative conversion ...

Although robotic surgery initially started with cardiovascular ... such as radical prostatectomy, cystectomy with bladder reconstruction, partial nephrectomy, pyeloplasty, and surgery for bladder ...

Using data from the National Cancer Database, investigators assess the prevalence of open, laparoscopic, and robotic surgeries across facilities as well as associated trends.

Mia Greer, a patient at UF Health, had already received laparoscopic surgery for a 12-pound ovarian cyst on Jan. 1. When the cyst returned, pediatric surgeon Steven Raymond recommended robotic ...