Section I: General Issues in Robotic Surgery
1 Overview of Existing Robotic Platforms
Laura Flores, Priscila Rodrigues Armijo, Salim Hosein, Dmitry Oleynikov
2 Teaching Robotic Surgery
Vahagn C. Nikolian, Jake G. Prigoff , Dina Podolsky
3 Achieving Profi ciency: Mastering the Learning Curve
Andrea Pakula
Section II: Robotic Hernia Surgery
4 Clinical Anatomy and Physiology of the Abdominal Wall
Luis A. Martin-Del-Campo
5 Preoperative Imaging in Hernia Surgery
David J. Morrell, Eric M. Pauli
6 Perioperative Optimization of a Hernia Patient
Samuel Torres-Landa, Sean B. Orenstein
7 Robotic Inguinal Hernia Repair with Mesh
Allegra Saving
8 Robotic Inguinal Hernia Repair without Mesh
Desmond Huynh, Shirin Towfi gh
9 Anatomy of the Groin and Robotic Neurectomies
Ian T. MacQueen, Sean M. O’Neill, David C. Chen
10 Robotic Intraperitoneal Hernia Repair
Hemasat Alkhatib, Ajita S. Prabhu
11 Robotic Transabdominal Preperitoneal (rTAPP) Ventral Hernia Repair
Kelly Tunder, Emily Helmick, Conrad Ballecer
12 Robotic Transabdominal Retrorectus Repair
Filip Muysoms
13 Robotic Totally Extraperitoneal Retrorectus Repair
Igor Belyansky, Richard Lu
14 Robotic Transversus Abdominis Release (r-TAR) Procedure
Dina Podolsky, Vahagn C. Nikolian, Yuri W. Novitsky
15 Robotic Anterior Component Separation
Flavio Malcher, Leandro Totti Cavazzola, Eduardo Parra-Davila
16 Robotic Parastomal Hernia Repair
Vedra Augenstein, Samuel Yelverton, William Charles Sherrill III
Section III: Robotic Bariatric and Foregut Surgery
17 Robotic Gastrectomy
Alexander S. Rosemurgy, Sharona B. Ross, Timothy J. Bourdeau, Iswanto Sucandy
18 Robotic Sleeve Gastrectomy
Francesca Dimou, Cheguevara Afaneh
19 Robotic Gastric Bypass
Abraham Krikhely
20 Robotic Hiatal Hernia Repair and Antirefl ux Surgery
Colin Dunn, Aleeson Eka, Caitlin Houghton
21 Robotic Paraesophageal Hernia Repair
Mohanad R. Youssef, Eric Rachlin, Carlos A. Galvani
22 Robotic Heller Myotomy
Marcia Alayon-Rosario, Alfredo M. Carbonell
23 Robotic Transhiatal Esophagectomy
Sharona B. Ross, Andres Giovannetti, Iswanto Sucandy, Trenton Lippert, Alexander S. Rosemurgy
Section IV: Intestinal and Colorectal Surgery
24 Robotic Right Colectomy
Jerald D. Wishner
25 Robotic Left Hemicolectomy and Low-anterior Resection
Sandeep S. Vijan
Section V: Robotic Hepato-Biliary and Solid Organ Surgery
26 Robotic Multiport Cholecystectomy
Clark Gerhart
27 Robotic Single-Site Cholecystectomy
Anthony Gonzalez
28 Robotic Splenectomy
Hany Takla
29 Robotic Hepatectomy
Sarah Corn, Ali Ahmad
30 Robotic Distal Pancreatectomy
Kazuki N. Sugahara, John A. Chabot
31 Robotic Whipple Procedure
Jesse Sulzer, Dioneses Vrochides, John B. Martinie
32 Robotic Pylorus-preserving Pancreaticoduodenectomy and Cholecystectomy
Sharona B. Ross, Alexander S. Rosemurgy, Jack Wecowski, Timothy J. Bourdeau, Iswanto Sucandy
33 Robotic Adrenalectomy – Transabdominal Approach
Maureen M. Tedesco, Micaela M. Esquivel
Index