RT Book, Section
A1 Park, Bernard J.
A2 Sugarbaker, David J.
A2 Bueno, Raphael
A2 Burt, Bryan M.
A2 Groth, Shawn S.
A2 Loor, Gabriel
A2 Wolf, Andrea S.
A2 Williams, Marcia
A2 Adams, Ann
SR Print(0)
ID 1170416870
T1 Robotic Mediastinal Surgery
T2 Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260026931
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170416870
RD 2024/04/24
AB One  of  the  originally  intended  indications  for  telerobotic  surgery  was  coronary  artery  bypass  grafting  because  of  its  perceived  advantages  in  a  confined  space  such  as  the  anterior  mediastinum.1  However,  despite  multiple  published  feasibility  studies  and  a  series  of  successful  mitral  valve  repairs,2  robotic  approaches  failed  to  gain  widespread  adoption  for  cardiac  surgery.  Between  2000  and  2006  the  majority  of  published  experience  with  telerobotic  surgery  was  in  the  arena  of  pelvic  surgery  (urologic  and  gynecologic).  Despite  the  lack  of  traction  of  robotics  in  cardiothoracic  surgery  during  this  early  period,  there  were  isolated  reports  of  utilization  for  mediastinal  surgery.3–5  The  first  series  of  robotic-assisted  procedures  for  mediastinal  masses  was  reported  by  Bodner  et  al.  from  Innsbruck  and  included  nine  thymectomies,  three  posterior  mediastinal  masses,  and  two  non-thymomatous  anterior  mediastinal  lesions.6  While  robotic  pulmonary  resection  was  slower  to  evolve,  experience  with  robotic  mediastinal  procedures,  particularly  thymectomy,  continued  to  grow.