The Foundation and Art of Robotic Surgery

Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, MD, FACS, is the Lloyd Nyhus Professor of Surgery, the division chief of General Minimally Invasive & Robotic Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the scientific director of the SITL (Surgical Innovation and Training Laboratory) in Chicago, IL. He is the honorary president and founder of the Clinical Robotic Surgical Association (CRSA). A pioneer and world-renowned surgeon in the field of robotic surgery, he was the first in the world to perform a significant series of robotic procedures to treat complex diseases and cancers (including Whipple, major hepatectomies, esophagectomy). He has carried out thousands of robot-assisted surgeries. In the last twenty years, he has done extensive work in teaching and training all over the world, as well as proctoring of surgeons from other institutions. Dr. Giulianotti is the author of several hundred scientific publications (including peer reviewed articles, textbooks, book chapters and conference papers).    Enrico Benedetti, MD, FACS, is the Warren H. Cole Chair in Surgery, professor and head of the Department of Surgery, medical director of the Abdominal Organ Transplant Program, Department of Surgery at UI Health in Chicago, IL. Dr. Benedetti is a prominent world-renowned leader in organ transplantation and in the use of robotic-assisted techniques in transplantation. He has to his credit many successful surgical firsts, including the first robotic donor nephrectomy for a living-donor kidney transplant, the first combined living-donor liver and bowel transplant from an adult to an infant, the first robotic combined kidney and pancreas procurement for a living-donor transplant, and the largest series of living-donor intestinal transplants in the world. Dr. Benedetti is the author of several hundred scientific publications (including peer reviewed articles, textbooks, book chapters and conference papers).     Alberto Mangano, MD, is a senior research fellow at the University Illinois at Chicago, Department of Surgery. He is also training and research coordinator at the SITL (Surgical Innovation and Training Laboratory) in Chicago, IL. His work is focused on robotics, virtual training and AI. Dr. Mangano is the author and co-author of numerous publications (including peer reviewed articles, book chapters and conference papers). 

SECTION I • General Principles







 



CHAPTER 1 • What Robotic Surgery Is.





CHAPTER 2 • The Basic Principles of Clinical Applications.





CHAPTER 3 • The Assistant’s Role in Robotic Surgery.





CHAPTER 4 • Robotic Training.





CHAPTER 5 • Keys for Success of a Robotic Program.





CHAPTER 6 • Implemented Imaging and Artificial Intelligence.





CHAPTER 7 • Fluorescence Imaging: Basics and Clinical Applications.







 



SECTION II •Thyroid Surgery.





CHAPTER 8 • Gasless Transaxillary Thyroidectomy(Off-Label Indication)





CHAPTER 9 • Transoral Thyroidectomy (Off-Label Indication).







 



SECTION III• Chest Surgery.





CHAPTER 10 • Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy (Off-Label Indication).





CHAPTER 11 • Extended Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma.





CHAPTER 12 • Ivor-Lewis Esophagectomy.





CHAPTER 13 • Radical Esophagectomy with Extended Mediastinal Lymphadenectomy.





CHAPTER 14 • Paraesophageal Hernia Repair.





CHAPTER 15 • Selective Nissen Fundoplication.





CHAPTER 16 • Heller Myotomy with Modified Dor Fundoplication.





CHAPTER 17 • Lung Lobectomies: General Principles and the Total Port, Transfissure Approach (Fissure First).





CHAPTER 18 • A. Lung Upper Lobectomies; B. Lung Lower Lobectomies.







 



SECTION IV •Gastric and Bariatric Surgery.





CHAPTER 19 • D2 Total Gastrectomy.





CHAPTER 20 • Sleeve Gastrectomy.





CHAPTER 21 • Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.







 



SECTION V • Intestinal Surgery.





CHAPTER 22 • Small Bowel Resection.





CHAPTER 23 • Radical Right Colectomy with Complete Mesocolic Excision (CME).





CHAPTER 24 • Left Colectomy.





CHAPTER 25 • Total Mesorectal Excision for Rectal Cancer.





CHAPTER 26 • Abdominoperineal Resection.







 



SECTION VI •Surgery of the Spleen and Pancreas.







 



CHAPTER 27 • Splenectomy.





CHAPTER 28 • Pancreaticoduodenectomy.





CHAPTER 29 • Radical Antegrade Modular Pancreatosplenectomy.





CHAPTER 30 • Spleen-Preserving Distal Pancreatectomy.





CHAPTER 31 • Central Pancreatectomy.





CHAPTER 32 • Enucleation of Pancreatic Tumors.







 



SECTION VII • Liver Surgery







 



CHAPTER 33 • Right Hepatectomy.





CHAPTER 34 • Left Hepatectomy.





CHAPTER 35 • Liver Sectionectomies: Left Lateral Sectionectomy.





CHAPTER 36 • Segmental and Atypical Liver Resections.







 



SECTION VIII• Biliary Surgery.







 



CHAPTER 37 • Cholecystectomy.





CHAPTER 38 • Roux-en-Y Hepaticojejunostomy.





CHAPTER 39 • Bile Duct Injuries Repair





CHAPTER 40 • Management of Intrahepatic Biliary Stones







 



SECTION IX • Adrenal Surgery.





CHAPTER 41 • Right Adrenalectomy.





CHAPTER 42 • Left Adrenalectomy.







 



SECTIONX • Hernia Surgery.





CHAPTER 43 • Inguinal Hernia Repair.





CHAPTER 44 • Ventral Hernia Repair (Intraperitoneal onlay mesh with fascial defect approximation).





CHAPTER 45 • Robotic Transversus Abdominis Release(roboTAR).





SECTIONXI • Transplant.





CHAPTER 46 • Donor Nephrectomy.





CHAPTER 47 • Kidney Transplant.





CHAPTER 48 • Pancreas Transplant.





CHAPTER 49 • Living Donor Hepatectomy.







 



SECTIONXII • Additional Procedures.





CHAPTER 50 • Renal Aneurysm.





CHAPTER 51 • Single Port Robotic Surgery: Basic Concepts (Off-label indication).