Abstract
Robot assistance is applied for different surgical specialties, in which great surgical skill is required. In microvascular free flap surgery, robotic systems are used for flap and pedicle harvesting, microvascular anastomoses, or inset of the flap. Advantages offered by robotic assistance are the ability to filter the physiological tremor of the hand, allow for motion scaling, and improve movement of instruments in smaller spaces. The Da Vinci Surgical System, following its precursors AESOP and ZEUS systems, is the most common used platform. The MUSA is the first robot specifically designed for microsurgery which can be used with dedicated microsurgical instruments in conjunction with a high magnification microscope. Robot assistance has great potential in the field of microvascular and free flap surgery. The evolution of endoscopic harvest and inset of flaps using current general robotic systems and the availability of new dedicated microsurgical robots is propelling innovation in our field.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Core Techniques in Flap Reconstructive Microsurgery |
| Subtitle of host publication | A Stepwise Guide |
| Editors | Dariush Nikkhah, Jeremy Rawlins, Georgios Pafitanis |
| Publisher | Springer, Cham |
| Pages | 77-86 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-031-07678-7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-031-07677-0, 978-3-031-07680-0 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Keywords
- Anastomosis
- Free flap surgery
- Microsurgery
- Microvascular surgery
- Robot
- Robotic assistance