Authors: Ahmet Göçmen Fatih Şanlıkan Mustafa Gazi Uçar
Publish Date: 2010/07/22
Volume: 282, Issue: 5, Pages: 539-545
Abstract
The study included 10 patients who had undergone roboticassisted endometrial staging group 1 and 12 patients staged by open surgery group 2 Demographical characteristics and operative outcomes of all patients were compared Body mass index age previous abdominal surgeries histopathologic characteristics performed operative procedure operation time complications hospitalization duration estimated blood loss and number of resected lymph nodes were recorded for all patientsMean age of the patients in the robotic surgery group was 557 years 37–66 and in the laparotomy group 564 years 47–75 Body mass index was calculated as 327 kg/m2 245–403 in group 1 and 303 kg/m2 259–358 in group 2 Total duration of operation was 2346 min 137–300 and 1685 min 102–232 in group 1 and 2 respectively Mean duration of hospitalization in group 1 was 28 days 2–5 and in group 2 was 88 days 6–13 Estimates of blood loss were 95 ml 20–210 ml in the robotic surgery group and 255 ml 80–420 in the other group The mean number of resected lymph nodes was 42 13–86 and 465 26–107 in the roboticassisted surgery group and laparotomy group respectively None of the cases in the roboticassisted endometrial staging group required transition to laparotomyRobotic surgery may be preferred over laparotomy with respect to the advantages observed in the duration of hospitalization estimated amount of blood loss and complications There was no significant difference between the two methods in terms of number of resected lymph nodes Despite the limited number of patients in this study these results are important as they represent the first data on robotic surgery in Turkey
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