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Outcomes and Complications of Robotic Kidney Surgery

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From its first developments, robot-assisted surgery had a rapid and wide diffusion into the field of urology and its indications have been expanded to several urological procedures and, as experience increased in the last years, even to challenging and complex cases with an acceptably low complication rate in the hands of high-volume surgeons. Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is currently the most common treatment modality for surgical management of clinically localized prostate cancer in the US. The consequence of the widespread adoption of RARP was the use of the robotic platform to treat other urological malignancies as well as benign conditions.

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  1. Urology Unit, Medical Centre Hospital Santa Maria della Misericordia, Udine, Italy

    Alessandro Crestani & Gianluca Giannarini

  2. Department of Human and Pediatric Pathology “Gaetano Barresi”, Urologic Section – University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    Marta Rossanese & Vincenzo Ficarra

  3. Department of Oncological, Surgical and Gastroenterological Sciences, Urology Clinic, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Valeria Lami

  4. Sant’Andrea Hospital, Urology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Francesco Esperto

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Crestani, A., Rossanese, M., Lami, V., Esperto, F., Giannarini, G., Ficarra, V. (2018). Outcomes and Complications of Robotic Kidney Surgery. In: Hemal, A., Menon, M. (eds) Robotics in Genitourinary Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20645-5_49

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