Impact of Robotic Platforms on Surgical Approach and Costs in the Management of Morbidly Obese Patients with Newly Diagnosed Uterine Cancer.

Background: Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is associated with decreased complication rates, length of hospital stay, and cost compared with laparotomy. Robotic-assisted surgery-a method of laparoscopy-addresses many of the limitations of standard laparoscopic instrumentation, thus leading to increased rates of MIS. We sought to assess the impact of robotics on the rates and costs of surgical approaches in morbidly obese patients with uterine cancer.

Comparing surgical infections in National Surgical Quality Improvement Project and an Institutional Database.

Background: Surgical quality improvement requires accurate tracking and benchmarking of postoperative adverse events. We track surgical site infections (SSIs) with two systems; our in-house surgical secondary events (SSE) database and the National Surgical Quality Improvement Project (NSQIP). The SSE database, a modification of the Clavien-Dindo classification, categorizes SSIs by their anatomic site, whereas NSQIP categorizes by their level.

Location of disease in patients who die from endometrial cancer: a study of 414 patients from a single institution.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the location of disease at the time of death of patients with endometrial cancer who died of their disease.

Methods: All patients with a diagnosis of endometrial cancer from January 1993 through December 2010 were included. Histologic classification was either endometrioid or high-risk (HR) endometrial cancer.