Robotic Approaches to Colorectal Surgery
This book examines the considerations, drawbacks, and advancements minimally invasive techniques have provided in the evaluation, management, and outcomes across a broad range of colorectal disease and procedures. For some readers of this book, a min
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Robotic Approaches to Colorectal Surgery
Howard Ross • Sang W. Lee Bradley J. Champagne Alessio Pigazzi • David E. Rivadeneira Editors
Robotic Approaches to Colorectal Surgery
Editors Howard Ross Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery Department of Surgery Temple University Health System Philadelphia, PA, USA Bradley J. Champagne Division of Colorectal Surgery University Hospitals Case Medical Center Cleveland, USA
Sang W. Lee Chief of Colon & Rectal Surgery Professor of Clinical Surgery University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine Los Angels, CA Alessio Pigazzi University of California, Irvine Orange, CA, USA
David E. Rivadeneira North Shore-LIJ Health System Huntington Hospital, Hofstra School of Medicine Woodbury, NY, USA
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Foreword
The evolution of robotic surgery, from a platform initially developed to improve the surgical care of combat casualties to the most technically advanced surgical instrument ever introduced in many fields, has been nothing but extraordinary. After a lukewarm reception in cardiac surgery in the late 1990s, robotic systems have been embraced in urology and then in gynecology during the past decade, offering surgeons safe, precise, and reproducible approaches to complex pelvic surgery, and becoming the most widely utilized minimally invasive platforms in these specialties. Although the adoption of robotics in general surgery has been somewhat slow, there is no doubt that the last few years have seen an exponential increa
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