Robotic surgery facilitates surgical procedures by employing flexible arms with multiple
degrees of freedom and providing high-quality 3-dimensional imaging. Robot-assisted
nipplesparing mastectomy with immediate reconstruction is currently performed to avoid
breast scars. Four patients with invasive ductal carcinoma underwent robot-assisted nipple-
sparing mastectomy and immediate robot-assisted expander insertion. Through a 6-cm
incision along the anterior axillary line, sentinel lymph node biopsy and nipple-sparing …