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- Title
Robotic colorectal surgery for laparoscopic surgeons with limited experience: preliminary experiences for 40 consecutive cases at a single medical center.
- Authors
Huang, Ching-Wen; Yeh, Yung-Sung; Ma, Cheng-Jen; Choy, Tak-Kee; Huang, Ming-Yii; Huang, Chun-Ming; Tsai, Hsiang-Lin; Hsu, Wen-Hung; Wang, Jaw-Yuan
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>We present our preliminary experiences and results for forty consecutive patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) who were treated by robotic surgery.<bold>Methods: </bold>Between May 2013 and September 2014, forty patients with CRC received robotic surgery at a single institution. The clinicopathological features and perioperative parameters were retrospectively analyzed.<bold>Results: </bold>Of the 40 patients with CRC, 33 (82.5 %) had rectal cancers, and 22 (66.7 %) of those 33 patients also underwent pre-operative concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT). The two most frequent surgical procedures were intersphincteric resection (ISR) with coloanal anastomosis (16/40, 40 %) and lower anterior resection (LAR) (15/40, 37.5 %). Among all 40 patients, the median time to first flatus passage was 2 days. The median time to soft diet resumption was 4 days. The median post operative hospital stay was 7 days. The overall complication rate was 20 % (8/40 patients), of which most of the complications were mild, although one laparotomy was required to check for post-operative bleeding. There was no 30-day hospital mortality, nor conversion to open surgery and laparoscopy.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>We present our preliminary experiences of robotic colorectal surgery and demonstrate that robotic colorectal surgery is a safe and feasible surgery even when conducted by laparoscopic surgeons with limited experience.
- Publication
BMC Surgery, 2015, Vol 15, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
1471-2482
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1186/s12893-015-0057-6