Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery (Jan 2006)

Role of robot assisted microsurgery in Plastic Surgery

  • S Saraf

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1700462
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 39, no. 01
pp. 57 – 61

Abstract

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The application of telerobotics in the biomedical field has grown rapidly and is showing very promising results. Robot assisted microsurgery is one of the latest innovations of telerobotics in the field of Plastic surgery. The purpose of this article is to update the plastic surgery community on the expanding field of surgical robotics with an attempt to analyze various aspects related to human versus robotic assisted microsurgery.

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