First year experience of robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery with 153 cases in a general surgery department: indications, technique and results.

Abstract

Our preliminary experience suggests that robotic surgery is feasible and worth of clinical application. The best indications for robotic surgery are the procedures that require a small operating field, a fine a precise dissection (suitable for pelvic and gastric lymphadenectomy, nerve sparing in total mesorectal excision) and safe intracorporeal sutures.