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Totally robotic complete mesocolic excision for right-sided colon cancer

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Complexity and operative risks of complete mesocolic excision (CME) seem to be important drawbacks to generalize this procedure in the surgical treatment of right colon cancer. Robotic systems have been developed to improve quality and outcomes of minimal invasive surgery. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of robotic right-sided CME and present our initial experience. A retrospective review of 37 patients undergoing totally robotic right-sided CME between February 2015 and November 2017 was performed. All the operations were carried out using the key principles of both CME with intracorporeal anastomosis and no-touch technique. Data on perioperative clinical findings and short-term outcomes were analyzed. There were 20 men and 17 women with a mean age of 64.4 ± 13.5 years and a body mass index of 26.8 ± 5.7 kg/m2. The mean operative time and estimated blood loss were 289.8 ± 85.3 min and 77.4 ± 70.5 ml, respectively. Conversion to laparoscopy occurred in one patient (2.7%). All the surgical margins were clear and the mesocolic plane surgery was achieved in 27 (72.9%) of the cases. The mean number of harvested lymph nodes was 41.8 ± 11.9 (median, 40; range 22–65). The mean length of hospital stay was 6.6 ± 3.7 days. The intraoperative and postoperative complication rates were 5.4 and 21.6%, respectively. We believe that use of robot for right-sided CME is feasible and appears to provide remarkably a high number of harvested lymph nodes with good specimen quality.

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  1. Department of General Surgery, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

    Volkan Ozben, Erman Aytac, Deniz Atasoy, Ilknur Erenler Bayraktar, Onur Bayraktar, Bilgi Baca, Tayfun Karahasanoglu & Ismail Hamzaoglu

  2. School of Medicine, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ipek Sapci

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Ozben, V., Aytac, E., Atasoy, D. et al. Totally robotic complete mesocolic excision for right-sided colon cancer. J Robotic Surg 13, 107–114 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11701-018-0817-2

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