J Korean Med Assoc.  2006 May;49(5):430-438. 10.5124/jkma.2006.49.5.430.

Robotics and Surgery

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery / Robot Surgery Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Severance Hospital, Korea. wjlee@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr

Abstract

Nowadays robotics are used in all surgical fields. By increasing the intra-abdominal articulation while operating through a small incision, robotics are increasingly used for a large number of visceral and solid organ operations, including surgery on the gallbladder, esophagus, stomach, intestines, colon, and rectum, as well as for the endocrine organs. As a specialty, robotics should continue to grow. The robotic era enables general surgeons perform more and more complex procedures through small incisions. As technology catches up with our imagination, robotic instruments and 3-D monitoring will become a routine practice and continue to improve the patient care by providing surgeons with most precise, least traumatic ways of treating surgical diseases.

Keyword

Robotic Surgery; Tele-Presence Surgery; Da Vinci Surgical System

MeSH Terms

Colon
Esophagus
Gallbladder
Imagination
Intestines
Patient Care
Rectum
Robotics*
Stomach

Figure

  • Figure 1 Surgeon's console of da Vinci system

  • Figure 2 da Vinci Robot cart with 4 robotic arms

  • Figure 3 Operation view in which the operator sit in the surgeon's console of da Vinci system

  • Figure 4 The application of da Vinci Robot cart in real operation of experimental swine model

  • Figure 5 Operation in surgeon's console of da Vinci system A) Surgical field shows the operation procedure, B) Both hands operate the motion of robotic instrument in the surgical field


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