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Are we really seeking for equivalence?—The virtue of the robot is in technology

Author(s) -

Aldo Brassetti,

Riccardo Mastroianni,

Giuseppe Simone

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

translational andrology and urology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.721

H-Index - 27

eISSN - 2223-4691

pISSN - 2223-4683

DOI - 10.21037/tau.2019.08.19

Subject(s) - cystectomy , dissection (medical) , urinary diversion , lymph node , gold standard (test) , bladder cancer , medicine , virtue , robot , surgery , general surgery , urology , computer science , artificial intelligence , radiology , cancer , philosophy , theology

Radical cystectomy (RC) with pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) and urinary diversion (UD) is the gold standard treatment for organ-confined muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) and recurrent non-muscle invasive disease (1). The open approach is still considered the reference option though the robot-assisted one has recently begone prevailing in western countries (2,3), mainly because of the expected advantages of this minimally-invasive technology in terms of reduced morbidity.

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