Totally Robotic Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: Results from 75 patients

Surgery Decreases Long-term Mortality, Morbidity, and Health Care Use in Morbidly Obese Patients

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Medicine, Surgery, General Surgery +15

Successful Transfer of Open Surgical Skills to a Laparoscopic Environment Using a Robotic Interface: Initial Experience With Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy

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Medicine, Surgery, Urology +17

Surgery for Severe Obesity

Robert Steinbrook · New England Journal of Medicine · 2004 · 594 citations

Medicine, Surgery, Gastroenterology +12

The learning curve for laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is 100 cases

Philip R. Schauer, Sayeed Ikramuddin, Giselle G. Hamad et al. · Surgical Endoscopy · 2003 · 479 citations

Medicine, Perioperative Medicine, Surgery +11

Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery for Treatment of Colorectal Diseases

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Engineering, Surgery, General Surgery +14