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Novel Technology in Robotic Surgery

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In 2000, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of the first robotic platform in surgical procedures, starting a new era in the minimally invasive surgery world. The da Vinci Surgical System platform (Intuitive Surgical, Inc.; Sunnyvale, CA) has been widely adopted by most surgical fields all around the world. With the three-dimensional (3D) image and articulated instrument arms, this platform overcame many of the limitations of laparoscopic surgery. Single-site robotic surgery was then developed to show potential advantages in terms of the recovery period, postoperative pain, and cosmesis compared to other techniques. Despite these potential advantages, inherent technical challenges such as external clashing between robotic arms and inadequate triangulation limited the use of this approach. This all has led to the development of the purpose-built single-port (SP) robotic platform, the da Vinci Single-Port (SP) (Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, CA), FDA approved for use in urology patients in 2018 and otolaryngology in 2019. Since its introduction, a wide range of successful urological and other procedures were performed with encouraging outcomes. This chapter introduces the SP platform and focuses on its implications in urological procedures among other specialties.

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  1. Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Mahmoud Abou Zeinab

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    Jihad Kaouk

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    Pedro F. Escobar

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Abou Zeinab, M., Kaouk, J. (2022). Novel Technology in Robotic Surgery. In: Escobar, P.F., Falcone, T. (eds) Atlas of Robotic, Conventional, and Single-Port Laparoscopy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93213-8_21

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