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Is robotics the future of laparoendoscopic single‐site surgery (LESS)?
Author(s) -
Spana Gregory,
Rane Abhay,
Kaouk Jihad H.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bju international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 1464-4096
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-410x.2011.10513.x
Subject(s) - medicine , robotics , robotic surgery , instrumentation (computer programming) , laparoscopic surgery , artificial intelligence , medical physics , surgical robot , surgery , general surgery , broad spectrum , laparoscopy , robot , computer science , operating system , chemistry , combinatorial chemistry
What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? LESS is a surgical technique that is utilized in many urological surgeries. The recent fusion of robotics and conventional LESS has significant implications for the future direction of LESS. This study is a review of LESS surgery, with a discussion about emerging technologies and the future directions of LESS surgery.• Laparoendoscopic single‐site surgery (LESS) is a term that covers a spectrum of surgical techniques that perform laparoscopic surgery by consolidating all ports into one surgical incision. • In recent years, there has been an expansion of LESS surgical techniques with a wide spectrum of urological procedures being performed using LESS surgery. • Paralleling the clinical expansion of LESS are efforts to improve the instrumentation and access devices as well as incorporation of robotic platforms to the LESS arena. • This expansion in technology has generated the essential question: is robotics the future of LESS?