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Challenges in Robotic Liver Surgery

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Over the course of the last 20 years, minimally invasive liver surgery (MILS) has been gaining widespread acceptance. MILS is currently considered a good alternative to open surgery. Despite the numerous improved outcomes, MILS did not yet reach the apex of its popularity. The reasons for this delay in MILS routine adoption are partly to be found in several obstacles posed by laparoscopic liver resection (LLR). LLR is an effective approach (with all the minimally invasive advantages), but it has several hurdles/limitations. Robotic liver resection (RLR) provides multiple technological and operative advantages, and it has solved some of the LLR limitations. In this chapter, the present challenges in RLR will be described, and also we will give our additional remarks on possible future trends.

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Prof. Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, M.D., F.A.C.S, has a consultant agreement with Covidien Medtronic and Ethicon Endosurgery, and he also has an institutional agreement (University of Illinois at Chicago) for training with Intuitive.

Drs Alberto Mangano and Valentina Valle have nothing to disclose.

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Mangano, A., Valle, V., Giulianotti, P.C. (2021). Challenges in Robotic Liver Surgery. In: Horgan, S., Fuchs, KH. (eds) Innovative Endoscopic and Surgical Technology in the GI Tract . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78217-7_3

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