Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery in gynecology: scientific dream or reality?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2620-2622

  Nezhat, Camran ^a   Lavie, Ofer ^b   Lemyre, Madeleine ^a   Unal, Ebru ^a   Nezhat, Ceana H ^a,c   Nezhat, Farr ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Atlanta Center for Special Minimally Invasive Surgery and Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

^d Minimally Invasive Surgery and Gynecologic Robotics   (United States)

Author keywords

da Vinci robot; gynecologic surgery; Robotic assisted laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HERNIA; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MYOMECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; OVARIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; SAFETY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; OVARIECTOMY; ROBOTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67349242770     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.03.070     Document Type: Article

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