Da Vinci robot error and failure rates: Single institution experience on a single three-arm robot unit of more than 700 consecutive robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomies

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1341-1344

  Zorn, Kevin C ^a,b   Gofrit, Ofer N ^a   Orvieto, Marcelo A ^a   Mikhail, Albert A ^a   Galocy, R Matthew ^a   Shalhav, Arieh L ^a   Zagaja, Gregory P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGEON; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THERAPEUTIC ERROR; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPES; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS;

EID: 36549075117     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2006.0455     Document Type: Article

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