Intraoperative image-guidance during robotic surgery: is there clinical evidence of enhanced patient outcomes?
Stefano TapperoGiuseppe FallaraFrancesco ChierigoAndrea MicalefFrancesca AmbrosiniRaquel DiazAndrea DoroteiEdoardo PompeoAlessia LimenaCarlo Andrea BraviMattia LongoniMattia Luca PiccinelliFrancesco BarlettaLuigi AlbanoElio MazzonePaolo Dell'OglioPublished in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2024)
Robot-assisted surgery benefits from image guidance, especially in terms of pathologic outcomes, namely higher detection of metastatic nodes and lower surgical margins. Moreover, IGS enhances renal function preservation and lowers surgical blood loss.
Keyphrases
- robot assisted
- minimally invasive
- deep learning
- small cell lung cancer
- squamous cell carcinoma
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- coronary artery bypass
- sentinel lymph node
- locally advanced
- patients undergoing
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- metabolic syndrome
- real time pcr
- adipose tissue
- early stage
- radiation therapy
- skeletal muscle
- insulin resistance
- rectal cancer
- surgical site infection