Robotic-Assisted Pelvic Surgery: Early Outcomes in a Single Institution.

This article reports the authors' experience with their first 50 consecutive robotic pelvic procedures, aiming to determine the feasibility and safety of adopting robotic pelvic surgery. Robotic surgery offers several benefits for minimally invasive surgery, but its applicability is hindered by cost and limited regional experience. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and safety of robotic pelvic surgery.

Mental Fatigue Evaluation of Surgical Teams during a Regular Workday in a High-Volume Tertiary Healthcare Center.

Introduction: Considering the complex set of manual and psychological tasks a surgeon has to perform during the day, it is very important to assess the surgeon's fatigability, reaction time, attention, and memory.

Objective: Here, we wanted to determine the mental fatigue status of surgeons and how their abilities are affected through a regular workday.

Methods: We included 3 senior urologists and 6 urology residents.

Pelvic exenteration, a surgical treatment option for locally advanced, primary and recurrent neoplasia.

Pelvic exenteration (PE) is an extensive surgical procedure for locally advanced primary neoplasia (LAPN) or recurrent neoplasia (RN) that consists in the en bloc removal of the pelvic organs (rectum, internal genital organs and bladder) associated with pelvic lymph nodes. PE is classified into anterior, posterior and total, supra or infralevatorian approaches. Our aim was to evaluate the surgical procedure and the resection margins in correlation with postoperative complications and morbidity rates after PE in patients treated in a single surgical unit.