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Essentials and Future Directions of Robotic Hepatobiliary Surgery, Including Cholecystectomy

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Robotic assistance offers several advantages for certain surgical procedures. Its use is being investigated for its application in gallbladder and liver surgery. This chapter describes techniques for various robotic-assisted liver resections and gallbladder surgery.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Riverside Surgical Group, Lexington Medical Center, 146 North Hospital Drive, Suite 430, 29169, West Columbia, SC, USA

    M. Shirin Sabbaghian M.D.

  2. Department of Surgical Oncology and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, UPMC Liver Cancer Centre Kaufmann Medical Building, 3471 Fifth Avenue Suite 300, Pittsburgh, 15213, PA, USA

    Suzanne C. Schiffman M.D.

  3. Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3459 Fifth Avenue, 7 South, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Allan Tsung M.D.

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Robotic cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholelithiasis in the setting of cirrhosis (Illustrations in video used with kind permission from Randal S. McKenzie/McKenzie Illustrations) (MPG 1260 kb) (M4V 77705 kb)

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Sabbaghian, M.S., Schiffman, S.C., Tsung, A. (2015). Essentials and Future Directions of Robotic Hepatobiliary Surgery, Including Cholecystectomy. In: Kroh, M., Chalikonda, S. (eds) Essentials of Robotic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09564-6_9

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