The Robotic Surgeon Blog

  • Robotic Nephrectomy for Kidney Cancer with Robotic Gallbladder Removal

    This past week I performed a right robotic kidney removal for suspected kidney cancer. My patient also had gallbladder problems and needed to have her gallbladder removed. Dr. Kopelan performed a robotic cholecystectomy under the same setting with the same positioning. This was the first time I used the DaVinci S to perform kidney surgery…

  • Live Telecast of da Vinci Prostate Cancer Surgery at AUA

    I have been selected to perform a live tecast from Newark Beth Israel Medical Center to the AUA conference in Atlanta on May 22nd. Any urologists interested in observing can go to the intuitive booth at noon.

  • Robotic Surgery Growth in New Jersey: Essex county

    This is a monthly update on the growth of Robotic Surgery in my practice. Due to a variety of reasons, this month was my slowest robotic surgical month of the last 7. 2 months ago I explained that I have been restricting use of the da vinci robot to prostate surgery. I am happy to…

  • “Mini-Incision” Radical Prostatectomy?

    In the February 2005 issue of UROLOGY, Dr. Miki et al from Kyoto, Japan descibes their initial experience using a running suture anastamosis during minilaparotomy radical retropubic prostatectomy for prostate cancer. They performed this anastamosis in 21 patients, utilizing a 6-cm midline incision. They used the Ethicon Endostitch device and a double-arm absorbable suture, starting…

  • daVinci Safe in the Obese

    Surgical robot makes prostate removal safe for obese men Source: News-Medical.Net “The use of a robotic system could make surgery for prostate cancer an option for thousands of obese men who might otherwise be turned down, report researchers from the University of Chicago in the April 2006 issue of the journal Urology.” I, and I…

  • New Robotic Surgical Procedure: Robotic Bladder Diverticulectomy

    Today, Dr. Marc Greenstein and I performed the first robotic diverticulectomy at our hospital, and likely among one of the first on the country. This procedure was done for recurrent bladder infections, but can also be done for bladder cancer. The operation went extremely well and much better than the typical open version of the…

  • Robotic patient

    Our friendly nephrologist at kidneynotes.com found this article: USATODAY.com – Robot birth simulator gaining in popularity I was giving a grand round recently and was asked by the chairman of medicine about other robots in medicine. I told the audience of the robotic doctor and robotic scrub nurse, but I think this list will grow…

  • Nebraska University makes roming mini-robot

    NU robots designed to train doctors to operate in outer space Source: Lincoln Journal Star

  • Robotic Prostate Surgery

    Although there is a growing number of prostates being removed robotically, there are many people and top urologists questioning the benefit of the da Vinci prostatectomy over the established open approach. This was recently debated on ABC News. I do find it interesting in that how some urologists that I deeply respect are heavily in…