(HealthDay)—For women with uterine cancer, robotic surgery is more costly but is associated with decreased length of hospital stay and higher rate of lymph node dissection, according to a study published in the November ...
Nov 18, 2015
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A study has revealed that robotic surgery was involved in 144 deaths and 1,391 injuries in the US during a 14-year period. While this may seem a cause for concern, considering there were 1.7m operations carried out during ...
Jul 28, 2015
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With the flick of a tiny mechanical wrist, a team of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt University's Medical Engineering and Discovery Laboratory hope to give needlescopic surgery a whole new degree of dexterity.
Jul 23, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Robotic surgery is safe and feasible for the surgical management of morbidly obese patients with endometrial cancer, according to research published in the July issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & ...
Jul 1, 2015
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A "perverse disincentive" for hospitals that have invested in expensive technology for robotic surgery may be jeopardizing prostate cancer patients who seek out the procedure, concluded a new study led by Henry Ford Hospital ...
May 15, 2015
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In a groundbreaking new study, UCLA researchers have advanced a robotic surgical technique to successfully access a previously unreachable area of the head and neck.
Dec 15, 2014
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Patients with operable kidney cancers were more likely to have a partial nephrectomy—the recommended treatment for localized tumors—when treated in hospitals that were early adopters of robotic surgery, according to a ...
Dec 11, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—What clues might brain metrics hold about the skill levels of surgeons who perform robot-assisted surgeries? Looking for better ways to assess the proficiency of surgeons performing these complex procedures, ...
Jul 9, 2014
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that the risk of patient harm increased two-fold in 2006 – the peak year that teaching hospitals nationwide embraced the pursuit of minimally ...
Jul 2, 2014
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From knife, to needle, to nothing at all, ultrasound offers the potential for completely bloodless surgery.
Jun 25, 2014
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