Application of da Vinci surgical robotic system in hepatobiliary surgery

Abstract

The development of minimally invasive surgery has brought a revolutionary change to surgery techniques, and endoscopic surgical robots, especially Da Vinci robotic surgical system, has further broadened the scope of minimally invasive surgery, which has been applied in a variety of surgical fields including hepatobiliary surgery. Today, the application of Da Vinci surgical robot can cover most of the operations in hepatobiliary surgery which has proved to be safe and practical. What's more, many clinical studies in recent years have shown that Da Vinci surgical system is superior to traditional laparoscopy. This paper summarises the advantage and disadvantage of Da Vinci surgical system and outlines the current status of and future perspectives on the robot-assisted hepatobiliary surgery based on the cases reports in recent years of the application of Da Vinci surgical robot.

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“…As a consequence, some experts argue that there were no significant benefits with RMIS. Such opinions stem from the fact that current MIS systems lack effective feedback mechanisms to provide tactile and haptic sensations based on the surgical parameters [4] .…”