Awake robotic liver surgery: A case report.

Background: In recent years, minimally invasive liver resection has become a standard of care for liver tumors. Considering the need to treat increasingly fragile patients, general anesthesia is sometimes avoided due to respiratory complications. Therefore, surgical treatment with curative intent is abandoned in favor of a less invasive and less radical approach.

Standardization of robotic right liver mobilization.

Background: Since its introduction 2 decades ago, robotics has been increasingly used for resection of benign and malignant liver lesions. The robotic platform seems to preserve minimally invasive approach benefits, overcoming laparoscopy limitations. Robotic right liver mobilisation represents a key step for many robotic resections from non-anatomical resections of posterosuperior segments to right hepatectomy.

Robotic emergency liver resection of ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma.

Background: The spontaneous rupture of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a rare complication. The management of this complication needs a stepwise, multidisciplinary approach which considers first of all clinical conditions of the patient and also the possibility of the best curative treatment.

Methods: We report our experience of an emergency robotic liver resection for a ruptured HCC in an elderly patient.

Current status of non-surgical treatment of locally advanced pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer is the 7 leading cause of death due to cancer in industrialized countries and the 11 most common cancer globally, with 458918 new cases (2.5% of all cancers) and 432242 deaths (4.5% of all cancer deaths) in 2018.