Dr. Robert Uzzo answers the question: 'Who Gets Robotic/Laparoscopic Surgery?' Jan. 01, 2009 -- Question: Who is an appropriate candidate for a laparoscopic or robot-assisted prostatectomy? Answer: ...

The Vattikuti Urology Institute at Henry Ford Hospital is the first center in the country to routinely perform surgery using a robotic system for the treatment of prostate cancer. With this robotic ...

Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy: Do Minimally Invasive Approaches Offer Significant Advantages?. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to ...

At 24 months' follow-up, the only phase 3 randomized clinical trial to directly compare functional and oncologic outcomes between robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy and open radical retropubic ...

We performed a systematic review of RASP. In addition, we analyzed our institutional experience with RASP, focusing on safety and perioperative outcomes. For MEDLINE, we limited the search to Case ...

The first direct comparison between robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy and open surgery (radical retropubic prostatectomy) has ended in a tie. Early results from an international, randomized, ...

Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death among American men. It is estimated that one in six males will develop the disease during his lifetime. However, promising new treatment options ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy has been used since 2000; however, no head-to-head trial has yet ...

Retreatment after benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) procedures appear lowest for men undergoing simple prostatectomy, HoLEP, ...

For men undergoing routine surgical treatment for localized prostate cancer (PCa), robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RALP) does not result in better functional outcomes compared with laparoscopic ...