The ongoing emergence of robotics in plastic and reconstructive surgery

Publication date: April 2018
Source:Annales de Chirurgie Plastique Esthétique, Volume 63, Issue 2
Author(s): S. Struk, Q. Qassemyar, N. Leymarie, J.-F. Honart, H. Alkhashnam, K. De Fremicourt, A. Conversano, J.-B. Schaff, F. Rimareix, F. Kolb, B. Sarfati
Robot-assisted surgery is more and more widely used in urology, general surgery and gynecological surgery. The interest of robotics in plastic and reconstructive surgery, a discipline that operates primarily on surfaces, has yet to be conclusively proved. However, the initial applications of robotic surgery in plastic and reconstructive surgery have been emerging in a number of fields including transoral reconstruction of posterior oropharyngeal defects, nipple-sparing mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction, microsurgery, muscle harvesting for pelvic reconstruction and coverage of the scalp or the extremities.