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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Rev Bras Ortop (Sao Paulo) 2022; 57(05): 709-717
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1744496
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Is There Room for Microsurgery in Robotic Surgery?[*]

Article in several languages: português | English
Jefferson Braga Silva 
1   Escola de Medicina, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
2   Departamento de Cirurgia da Mão e Microcirurgia Reconstrutiva, Hospital São Lucas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
,
Catarina Vellinho Busnello 
1   Escola de Medicina, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
,
Matheus Ribeiro Cesarino 
1   Escola de Medicina, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
,
Luiza Fernandes Xavier 
1   Escola de Medicina, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
,
Leandro Totti Cavazzola 
3   Departamento de Cirurgia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
› Author Affiliations Funding The present study did not receive any financial support from public, commercial, or non-profit sources.
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Abstract

Robotic surgery opened a new era of minimally-invasive procedures, through its improved precision, elimination of tremors, greater degrees of freedom, and other facilitating aspects. The field of robotic microsurgery showed great growth in recent years in particular, since robotics offers a potentially-ideal configuration to perform the sensitive manipulations required in microsurgery. We conducted a systematic review to assess the benefits of robotic surgery and its contributions to microsurgery, comparing it with other surgical techniques used in patients of all age groups. We assessed 25 articles found in the PubMed and Cochrane databases using the terms 'robotic surgery' AND microsurgery, with a filter for studies published in the last five years, and studies conducted in humans and published in English or Portuguese. We concluded that there is plenty of room for robotic surgery in microsurgery, such as in male infertility procedures, neurological microsurgery, ocular and otological surgeries, and transoral, hepatobiliary, microvascular, plastic and reconstructive surgeries.

Keywords

robotic surgical procedures - microsurgery - minimally-invasive surgical procedures

* Study conducted at the School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.




Publication History

Received: 14 February 2021

Accepted: 07 February 2022

Article published online:
16 May 2022

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