Robotic pancreatic surgery: minimally invasive approach to challenging operations.

Background: Pancreatic surgery is still associated with high perioperative morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to present the short-term outcomes of robot-assisted pancreatic surgery, including pancreaticoduodenectomy (RAPD), distal pancreatectomy (RDP) with or without splenectomy, enucleation (REN), and atypical resection (RAR), for benign, borderline, and malignant lesions at a high-volume center.

Methods: A single-center, prospective database was used to retrospectively analyze the early outcomes of robotic pancreatic procedures completed between 2014 and 2020.

Robotic versus open pancreaticoduodenectomy: Is there any difference for frail patients?

Background: Old age and frailty are predictors of early postoperative results after pancreatic surgery. We analysed the results of robotic and open pancreatoduodenectomy in elderly and frail patients.

Methods: Data from the local robotic pancreatoduodenectomy database were reviewed and matched with those from open operations during the same period (2014-2020).

Robotic enucleation for oesophageal benign and borderline tumours: Less is more?

Background: Oesophageal benign to borderline tumours are rare entities, and their optimal treatment strategy remains controversial. Surgical robotic enucleation is an option to optimize their management.

Methods: We prospectively collected data on seven consecutive oesophageal benign to borderline tumours operated robotically over a 4-year period.

Correction to: Single-centre comparison of robotic and open pancreatoduodenectomy: a propensity score-matched study.

In the Abstract, in the Methods section the sentence "Of the 121 included patients, 78 underwent RAPD and 43 underwent OPD." Should read: Of the 121 included patients, 77 underwent OPD and 44 underwent RAPD."

Single-centre comparison of robotic and open pancreatoduodenectomy: a propensity score-matched study.

Background: Pancreatoduodenectomy for pancreatic head and periampullary cancers is still associated with high perioperative morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to compare the short-term outcomes of robot-assisted pancreatoduodenectomy (RAPD) and open pancreatoduodenectomy (OPD) performed in a high-volume centre.

Methods: A single-centre, prospective database was used to retrospectively compare the early outcomes of RAPD procedures to standard OPD procedures completed between January 2014 and December 2018.

Feasibility of robotic resection of gastrointestinal stromal tumors along the entire gastrointestinal tract.

Robotic surgery has been proposed over the last decade as a valid option to treat gastrointestinal malignancies in a minimally invasive method, yielding encouraging results. The authors examine the outcomes of a consecutive series of patients with stromal gastrointestinal neoplasms who were operated on using a totally robotic technique. There were 36 patients in the study, with median age 70 years.