Robot-Assisted Right Hepatectomy

Emilio Vicente, MD, PhD, FACS; Yolanda Y. Quijano, MD, PhD; Hipolito Duran, MD, PhD; Eduardo Diaz, MD; Isabel Fabra, MD; Valentina Ferri, MD; Luis L. Malave, MD; Ricardo Caruso, MD; Monica Nuñez, MD; Jose Carlos Plaza, MD

Product Details
Product ID: ACS-5601
Year Produced: 2018
Length: 11 min.


Robotic surgical technologies have been introduced with the goal of improving current outcomes from laparoscopic surgery. The use of robotic surgery in liver resection is still limited. According to our early experience from a single surgical center, robotic liver resection is a safe and feasible procedure from the beginning of its use, even if major hepatectomies and a number of malignancies are included. One of the big theoretical advantages of robotic assistance in complex surgery is the shorter learning curve compared with conventional laparoscopy So, robotic system offers several advantages in a high HPB volume surgical center. We show in the video the surgical technique performed in a patients with liver metastasis from colo-rectal carcinoma. We performed a right hepatectomt with robotic assistance. We describe its various surgical steps: Patient positioning and port placement, portal dissection, extraparenchymal dissection of the right portal pedicle , hepatic mobilization and parenchymal transection