28.07.2020 | ASO Author Reflections
ASO Author Reflections: Robotic Oncologic Surgery
verfasst von:
June S. Peng, MD, Steven N. Hochwald, MD, MBA, Moshim Kukar, MD
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Sonderheft 3/2020
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Excerpt
Minimally invasive approaches for oncologic surgery have been steadily gaining favor, with lower complication rates in randomized trials for both laparoscopic and thoracoscopic
1 and robotic
2 esophagectomies compared with open esophagectomy. Analysis of the National Cancer Database shows increasing adoption of minimally invasive techniques over time, with 55.9% of esophagectomies performed using a minimally invasive approach in 2015.
3 However, these approaches can be challenging to perform, with significant learning curves to achieve these results. …