Patients undergoing robotic-assisted surgery appear to experience no clinical benefit compared with those having conventional laparoscopic procedures, despite a much higher cost, two studies suggest.

The recently developed single-port, multichannel access approach to urologic surgery may allow many common laparoscopic and robotic procedures to be performed entirely through the patient's ...

(HealthDay)—For women with uterine cancer, robotic surgery is more costly but is associated with decreased length of hospital stay and higher rate of lymph node dissection, according to a study ...

Robotic surgery resulted in better quality of resection for patients with middle and low rectal cancer compared with conventional laparoscopic surgery, a randomized trial in China showed. In a ...

The ability to do laparoscopic or robotic surgery very much depends on a number of issues including the patient's history. For example, if they've had a number of prior surgeries they may not be a ...