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Robotic-Assisted Surgery in Urinary Fistulas

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Urinary fistulas have a major impact on quality of life. Repair of urinary fistulas is mostly re-do surgeries that were performed earlier with open relaparotomies. Advanced robotic urology provides new options to repair complex urinary fistulas in a minimal invasive approach.

M. Randazzo and H. John describe the reconstructive robotic approach for vesicovaginal fistulas as a safe and successful option with standard techniques and flap interpositions. J. Rassweiler reports the robot-assisted technique to close rectovesical fistulas, and D. Pushkar demonstrates the step-by-step management of ureterovaginal fistulas. The development of advanced reconstructive robotic urology provides nowadays a minimal invasive approach in the routine even in this complex re-do surgeries, providing excellent and safe results.

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  1. Klinik für Urologie, EBU Certified Training Centre, Urologisches Tumorzentrum, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

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  2. Department of Urology MSMSU, Urologist General of Russia, Moscow, Russia

    D. Pushkar

  3. Urologie Zentrum, Klinik Hirslanden Aarau, Schänisweg, Aarau, Switzerland

    M. Randazzo

  4. Department of Urology, SLK Klinken Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany

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John, H., Pushkar, D., Randazzo, M., Rassweiler, J. (2022). Robotic-Assisted Surgery in Urinary Fistulas. In: Wiklund, P., Mottrie, A., Gundeti, M.S., Patel, V. (eds) Robotic Urologic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00363-9_67

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