Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana (Sep 2017)

ADVANCED ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY IS THE FUTURE OF SURGERY

  • Raul Sebastian MD

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25176/RFMH.v17.n3.1067
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 3
pp. 7 – 9

Abstract

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Currently, we live in a new era of minimally invasive surgery. Operations are more like video games than traditional open surgeries. The old-fashioned expression that “a good surgery requires a large incision” has been completely abandoned in countries where medical technology and research are well structured. Within the modern minimally invasive surgeries over the last 30 years, laparoscopic surgery is the most well established and recognized approach. However, with development of advanced technologies and intense research, robotic surgery has emerged in the last decade as an attractive alternative to laparoscopic surgery.