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Robotic Surgery in Urology: Millimetric Medicine

Robotic Surgery in Urology: Millimetric Medicine

Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 10/12/2021

Robotic Surgery consists of an advanced technology that allows the surgeon to perform detailed interventions. The main benefit is for the patient, who will have few days of hospitalization. In the area of ​​urology, robotic surgery is absolutely recommended in those patients with prostate and kidney cancer

Dr. Víctor Enrique Corona Montes

Robotic Surgery is surgery is also called as Minimal Invasion, which consists of small wounds to achieve vision inside the body.

S Minimally Invasive or Robotic Surgery in Urology has become an important tool for oncology medicine is characterized by surgical intervention inside the human body with very thin instruments, usually eight millimeters.

This advanced technology allows the surgeon to perform detailed interventions, with a 3-dimensional view and with the assistance of robotic arms and a console from where the surgeon controls all movements of the robot.

Functioning

In general, the instrument used consists of 3 components: a trolley of robotic arms that are attached to the patient by means of trocars (small tubes as in laparoscopic surgery); a car of vision that allows to have energies to coagulate and to cut; and a console or device in which the surgeon is seated observing the patient's interior in 3 dimensions.

Potential benefits of this technique

The main benefit is for the patient, who will have a few days of hospitalization depending on the intervention, as well as a recovery and return to their daily activities faster.Another advantage of this method is the three-dimensional vision of the surgeon with which the improvement of the intervention will be achieved, improving the separation of the structures affected and the areas to be respected, as in the treatment of prostate cancer or in the kidney cancer.

A condition in which robotic medicine is used

At present, robotic surgery is also used by the specialties of Gynecology, Coloproctology, General Surgery, Bariatric Surgery, for example to mention some specialties.

In the area of ​​urology, robotic surgery is absolutely recommended in those patients with prostate and kidney cancer. Also, this technique is preferable for those who have been diagnosed with a prostate and kidney tumor, as well as for the removal of the bladder in patients affected by cancer of this organ.

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