The current status of robotic oncologic surgery

CA Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-56

  Yu, Hua Yin ^a   Friedlander, David F ^b   Patel, Sunil ^c   Hu, Jim C ^d  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

colon and rectum neoplasms; esophageal neoplasms; gynecologic oncology; health outcomes; urology

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENALECTOMY; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLEEDING; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICECTOMY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYSTECTOMY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; GASTRECTOMY; GENERAL SURGERY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOUTH CANCER; ORAL SURGERY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; THORAX SURGERY; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEOPLASM; REVIEW;

HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872925652     PISSN: 00079235     EISSN: 15424863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3322/caac.21160     Document Type: Article

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