Credit: Thinkstock A retrospective study has shown that the procedure is feasible and was performed safely in selected patients with renal tumors. Since the first report of robotic nephrectomy in the ...

Robotic surgery offers the same or better results than minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures for treating kidney disease, and can potentially help more patients because it is not as difficult for ...

Robotic NSS Without Ischemia for Exophytic Small Renal Masses As nephron-sparing surgery has become widely accepted, increasing emphasis has been placed on reducing surgical morbidity. Cleveland ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lower rates of adverse outcomes were linked to higher technical skill Surgeons with higher scores had lower ...

Two studies published by JAMA compare certain outcomes of robotic-assisted vs laparoscopic surgery for kidney removal or rectal cancer. In one study, In Gab Jeong, M.D., Ph.D., of the Stanford ...

Telesurgery was as reliable as standard robotic surgery for two common urological procedures, according to a small Chinese randomized trial. Use of telesurgery -- operating on a patient remotely using ...