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As is the case with other surgical specialties, urologic practice has witnessed major breakthroughs throughout its history. Achievements such as the introduction of anesthesia in the 1840s and that of introducing penicillin in the 1940s have had a profound and lasting affect on the way urology is practiced. It is on this very same note that the revolution in information technology has to be seen, as current advances will undoubtedly again alter urology as we now know it. These exciting new frontiers have been made possible by the rapid expansion of the Internet, development in telecommunication infrastructures, an ever-multiplying computing power, and the increasing sophistication of robotics. Consequently, telesurgical urology became an inevitability, dictated not only by the incipient possibility but also by needs and necessities inherent to the specialty.
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Rawashdeh, Y., Olsen, H. (2008). Telesurgery in Urology. In: Kumar, S., Marescaux, J. (eds) Telesurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72999-0_3
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