Robotic technologies in surgical oncology training and practice.

The modern-day surgeon is frequently exposed to new technologies and instrumentation. Robotic surgery (RS) has evolved as a minimally invasive technique aimed to improve clinical outcomes. RS has the potential to alleviate the inherent limitations of laparoscopic surgery such as two dimensional imaging, limited instrument movement and intrinsic human tremor.

Erectile dysfunction after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

With younger and healthier men being diagnosed and treated for localized prostate cancer, postradical prostatectomy erectile dysfunction has become an ever more important matter of debate. However, the lack of a standardized definition for potency and no consensus regarding the optimal instrument for assessing recovery of erectile function after prostatectomy makes comparison among different series extremely difficult. The potential morbidity associated with the open surgical approach has resulted in the search for less invasive surgical options.

Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in obese patients.

Objectives: Few centers perform extraperitoneal robot assisted radical prostatectomy. The average patient weight is increasing to the mildly obese. Little is known as to the difficulty-impact, obesity may have on robot-assisted extraperitoneal prostatectomy (RAP).