Ioannis D Kostakis, Harkiran Sran, Raphael Uwechue, Pankaj Chandak, Jonathon Olsburgh, Nizam Mamode, Ioannis Loukopoulos, Nicos Kessaris
INTRODUCTION: Robotic surgery has been increasingly used in fashioning various surgical anastomoses. Our aim was to collect and analyze outcomes related to anastomoses performed using a robotic approach and compare them with those done using laparoscopic or open approaches through meta-analysis. METHODS: A systematic review was conducted for articles comparing robotic with laparoscopic and/or open operations (colectomy, low anterior resection, gastrectomy, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), pancreaticoduodenectomy, radical cystectomy, pyeloplasty, radical prostatectomy, renal transplant) published up to June 2019 searching Medline, Scopus, Google Scholar, Clinical Trials and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials...
2019: Robotic Surgery: Research and Reviews