Multicenter Prospective Comparative Study of Robotic Versus Laparoscopic Gastrectomy for Gastric Adenocarcinoma

Kim, Hyoung-Il MD^*,†,‡; Han, Sang-Uk MD^§; Yang, Han-Kwang MD^¶; Kim, Young-Woo MD^||; Lee, Hyuk-Joon MD^¶; Ryu, Keun Won MD^||; Park, Joong-Min MD^**; An, Ji Yeong MD^*,†,‡; Kim, Min-Chan MD^††; Park, Sungsoo MD^‡‡; Song, Kyo Young MD^§§; Oh, Sung Jin MD^¶¶; Kong, Seong-Ho MD^¶; Suh, Byoung Jo MD^¶¶; Yang, Dae Hyun MD^||||; Ha, Tae Kyung MD^***; Kim, Youn Nam PhD^†††; Hyung, Woo Jin MD, PhD^*,†,‡

Annals of Surgery: January 2016 - Volume 263 - Issue 1 - p 103–109

doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001249

Original Articles

Objective: To compare short-term surgical outcomes including financial cost of robotic and laparoscopic gastrectomy.

Background: Despite a lack of supporting evidence, robotic surgery has been increasingly adopted as a minimally invasive modality for the treatment of gastric cancer because of its assumed technical superiority over conventional laparoscopy.

Conclusions: The use of robotic systems is assumed to provide a technically superior operative environment for minimally invasive surgery. However, our analysis of perioperative surgical outcomes indicated that robotic gastrectomy is not superior to laparoscopic gastrectomy. Clinical trials identification: NCT01309256

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