Category: Robotic Surgery

  • Prostatectomy

  • Robotic Radical Cystectomy

    The treatment of muscle invasive bladder cancer or superficially recurrent bladder cancer includes the removal of the bladder.  In men the prostate is also removed and in women the uterus, ovaries, cervix, and a small part of vagina is also removed.  This is one of the most complicated urologic surgeries. After removing the bladder, a…

  • da Vinci Robotic Prostatectomy

  • Robotic Kidney Surgery

    Robotic Partial Nephrectomy Solid renal masses are malignant 80-90% of the time.  The treatment of these has historically been a radical nephrectomy.  This operation consists of the removal of the kidney, adrenal gland, part of the ureter, and the fat and lymph nodes around the kidney. As more has been learned about the behavior of…

  • Robotic surgery summary- October/November 2007

    In October and November I performed 46 robotic surgeries, including 35 dvPs, 4 partial nephrectomies, 2 nephrectomies, 2 radical cystectomies including a bladder replacement in a woman, 1 simple prostatectomy, a stone procedure to remove a large left kidney stone, and a removal of a piece of ureter and re-implant for ureteral cancer. The most…

  • Robotic failure during surgery

    Robot failure during radical prostatectomies is ‘extremely rare’ – Failure rates will continue to shrink as technology advances – UrologyTimes The study team recorded critical failures in 20 cases (0.3%) leading to the cancellation of 10 procedures and conversion to laparoscopic in one case and to open procedure in nine cases. Recoverable failures were more…

  • Robotic surgery coming to Edmonton

    edmontonsun.com – Edmonton News – $10M fundraiser in Edmonton aims to help combat prostate cancer An Edmonton hospital is tackling prostate cancer with a $10-million fundraiser to open a prostate health clinic, purchase a robotic surgery system and increase its research fund. Fundraising will likely bring another robotic system to Canda.

  • Robotic Kidney Surgery reaches Australia

    Man’s kidney removed by robot | The Daily Telegraph IT sounds like science fiction – but a NSW man has become the first person in the southern hemisphere to have a kidney removed by a robot.

  • Robotic surgery summary- September 2007

    In September I performed 19 operations including 13 dvPs. One simple prostatectomy was combined with a left inguinal hernia repair. This was the first time I had performed this combination, although I have performed close to 50 hernia repairs at the time of dvP. The new thing to report is an improvement in continence that…