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Robotic APR shows better short-term outcomes than laparoscopic APR, with lower positive resection margins and conversion rates to open surgery. Robotic APR is associated with longer operation times ...

Robotic surgery is associated with improved outcomes over laparoscopic procedures for colon cancer patients undergoing colectomies, according to a new study by Dallas-based University of Texas ...

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) of colorectal cancer has become more popular in the past two decades. Laparoscopic colectomy has been accepted as an alternative standard approach in colon cancer, ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration held a meeting in July to address robotic surgery, which can allow greater surgical precision but does have some risks stemming mostly from inadequate physician ...

LINCOLN, Neb. & PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virtual Incision Corporation today announced the successful first-in-human use of its miniaturized robotically assisted surgical device (RASD) for ...

MAS techniques have been shown to be oncologically equivalent to open rectal cancer resection in terms of the number of harvested lymph nodes and margin negativity Barriers such as a steep learning ...

May 17, 2011 — Laparoscopy independently predicts decreased mortality from colon resection even when controlling for multiple factors, according to the results of a retrospective cohort study ...