Robot-Assisted Surgery in the Treatment of Gynecological Carcinoma and Malignancies: Introduction to the da Vinci Robotic Surgery System

Cureus. 2023 Aug 6;15(8):e43035. doi: 10.7759/cureus.43035. eCollection 2023 Aug.

Abstract

Robotic surgery is a surgical intervention that was developed from traditional manual surgeries because of the intrusive procedures it uses. It is now accomplished in hospitals worldwide, and comprehensive programs for the application of technology in the management of gynecological cancer are being developed. Robotic surgery should be straightforwardly compared with manual and traditional laparoscopy to see if the higher indirect costs are justified by some improvements in patient studies. This paper aims to evaluate the procedure of robotic surgery and its implementation in gynecological cancer to verify its safeness, practicability, and effectiveness. A higher chance of infections is usually in classical surgery, particularly in comparison to laparoscopic or robotic surgery. Surgical and hospital stay are much less with any of these new technologies than the aforementioned; however, the drawbacks are the scarcity of robot systems, their high price, and the realization that it is only appropriate in learning institutions with infrastructure and highly skilled surgeons. In conclusion, tissue engineering constitutes a significant discovery and approach for treating gynecological cancer with improved methods than some other types of traditional surgery, and it will likely become dominant technology shortly.

Keywords: conventional laparoscopy; disease-free survival; food and drug administration; laparoscopy; massive invasive suregery; robot-assisted surgery.

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