Prostate cancer is a major public health problem across the globe. With 1.3 million new
cases and 359,000 deaths in 2018, prostate cancer is the second most common cancer and …

Background: Urology has been at the forefront of adopting laparoscopic and robot-assisted
techniques to improve patient outcomes. This systematic review aimed to examine the …

Background Long-term outcomes of patients treated with salvage lymph node dissection
(sLND) for nodal recurrence of prostate cancer (PCa) remain unknown. Objective To …

Background The LAP-01 trial was designed to address the lack of high-quality literature
comparing robotic-assisted (RARP) and laparoscopic (LRP) radical prostatectomy. Objective …

Background In the field of robotic surgery, there is a lack of comparative evidence on
surgical and functional outcomes of different robotic platforms. Objective To assess the …

Background Improved cancer control with increasing surgical experience—the learning
curve—was demonstrated for open and laparoscopic prostatectomy. In a prior single–center …

Background Robot-assisted total hip arthroplasty (THA) has the potential of improving cup
positioning. However, there is an associated learning curve with robot. This study aimed to …

Purpose: Available published studies evaluating the association between nerve sparing
robot-assisted radical prostatectomy and risk of ipsilateral positive surgical margins were …

Objectives To evaluate how surgeon heterogeneity–the variation in outcomes between
individual surgeons–influences functional and oncological outcomes after robot‐assisted …

This recent literature analysis suggests that there is an urgent need to develop and validate
new structured training curricula for robotic surgery. This allows to improve the skills of the …