The Robotic Surgeon Blog

  • Positive margins after partial nephrectomy

    UroToday – Positive Surgical Parenchymal Margin After Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy for Renal Cella: Oncological Outcomes Carcinom Thursday, 15 March 2007 BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) – Positive margins following supposedly curative surgery can be devastating for patient and surgeon alike. The implication that cancer was “left behind” implies a continued biologic threat, although little is known about…

  • Treatment of aggressive prostate cancer with surgery or radiation is beneficial

    UroToday – Surgery, Radiation Treatment Double Life Expectancy of Patients with Aggressive Prostate Cancer Thursday, 15 March 2007 BERKELEY, CA (Newswise) – After being diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer, many men are told that their disease is untreatable and that less aggressive treatment is best. Often this means patients are told to watch and wait…

  • Surgery for Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis

    UroToday – Laparoscopic Versus Open Radical Nephrectomy for Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis: Contemporary Outcomes Analysis BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) – It was not until 9 years after the initial laparoscopic nephrectomy, that the first report on using this technique for xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XGP) emerged from Washington University. At that time, we noted the procedures were much longer than…

  • Robotic Prosatectomy at the NCCN

    Genengnews.com: Robot Spurs Men’s Recovery After Surgery, Urologist Says at NCCN Annual Conference Even surgeons who once favored traditional ‘open’ methods of cutting and suturing during prostate or bladder-cancer operations have learned to love the joystick-operated robot, said Timothy G. Wilson, M.D., director of the Prostate Cancer Program at City of Hope Cancer Center, at…

  • 1st daVinci S robot in Morris county, New Jersey

    Straus Newspapers – Advertiser News / News: Robotic surgery brings tomorrow’s surgical techniques to Saint Clare’s today DENVILLE — As part of its ongoing commitment to provide the latest in medical care and technology to its patients in the communities in which they live, Saint Clare’s has announced that it performed its first robot-assisted, minimally invasive surgery…

  • Obese patients at higher risk during surgery

    Straightfromthedoc: Risk of Post-Operative Complications, Higher in Obese Patients: Morbidly obese patients had a death rate nearly twice as high as that of all other patients, had higher rate of cardiac arrest and have significantly higher risk of complications following surgery, including heart attack, wound infection, nerve injury and urinary tract infection. Such were the…

  • The Wall Street Journal joins the medical blogging community

    Health Blog: Welcome to the Journal’s Health Blog From the skyrocketing costs of new drugs to showdowns over who should pay for health care to consumers’ confusion over their own medical bills, the pressures facing the health-care system have never been greater. Or more interesting.

  • Prostate cancer options now on google documents.

    My prostate cancer counseling sheet.  This is meant to give an idea of the major forms of prostate cancer therapy and are the main one I focus on at a consultation for newly diagnosed prostate cancer.  This should only be used under the supervision of a urologist. A printable form can be found online. This…

  • Thromboembolic disease after renal surgery

    UroToday – Perioperative Clinical Thromboembolic Events after Radical or Partial Nephrectomy This study demonstrates that while the incidence of thromboembolic phenomena is low in patients undergoing renal surgery, there are specific subsets of patients that can be identified that are at increased risk and therefore deserving of more aggressive prophylaxis. These include older patients, those…