Miniature surgical robots in the era of NOTES and LESS: Dream or reality?

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 97-107

  Zygomalas, Apollon ^a   Kehagias, Ioannis ^a   Giokas, Konstantinos ^b   Koutsouris, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

endoscopy; laparoscopy; LESS; mini robots; miniature; minimally invasive surgery; NOTES; robotic surgery; SILS single site surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAMERA; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENDOSCOPE; FIBEROSCOPE; HUMAN; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; LAPAROENDOSCOPIC SINGLE SITE SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPE; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER RESECTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; ROBOTICS; SCOPUS; SEARCH ENGINE; SIDE TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; SKIN INCISION; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL FEEDBACK; WEDGE RESECTION; ELECTRONICS; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE;

HUMANS; MINIATURIZATION; NATURAL ORIFICE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84921340497     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: 15533514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350614532549     Document Type: Article

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