Today's state of the art in surgical robotics

Computer Aided Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 101-132

  Pott, Peter ^a,b   Scharf, Hanns Peter ^a   Schwarz, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Review; Robot aided surgery; State of the art

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; MEDLINE; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; ORAL SURGERY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; THORAX SURGERY; TRAUMATOLOGY; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LAPAROSCOPY; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 28444445605     PISSN: 10929088     EISSN: 10970150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10929080500228753     Document Type: Review

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