The State of the Art in Robotic Thoracic Surgery: Innovation, Complexity and Outcomes
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "General Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2027 | Viewed by 112
Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As we all know, minimally invasive surgery has come a very long way over the past 20 years. There have been many changes during this timeframe, not only from a technological standpoint with regard to surgical platforms, but also regarding the actual thoracic surgery practice. A perfect example of this is the changing paradigm of lung cancer treatment with the utility of chemo- and immuno- as well as targeted therapy. As technology has changed, our treatments have evolved, necessitating changes in the way surgeons plan and perform their everyday surgeries. Yet this rapid adoption has outpaced the evidence in several critical domains, from complex resections after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy to the integration of artificial intelligence and the validation of next-generation platforms, such as the single-port (SP) robotic system. Early feasibility studies have demonstrated safety and promising perioperative outcomes across lobectomy, segmentectomy, thymectomy, mediastinal tumor resection, and esophagectomy, yet the published literature remains limited. The purpose of this Special Issue is to highlight these advances. To achieve this goal, we are showcasing timely topics in the field of thoracic surgery researched by experts in these areas. We hope that this Special Issue will be relevant to most general thoracic surgeons and that the information provided here will be pertinent to everyday clinical practice. We invite original research and reviews addressing these areas.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Robotic thoracic surgery following neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy for NSCLC;
- Single-port robotic thoracic surgery: feasibility, outcomes, and comparative effectiveness;
- Robotic segmentectomy in the lung cancer screening era;
- Robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE): current evidence and future directions;
- 3D reconstruction and advanced surgical planning;
- Robotic first rib resection;
- Robotic lung transplantation;
- Robotic tracheobronchoplasty.
Dr. Michael Zervos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thoracic surgery
- robotic surgery
- single-port robotic surgery
- robotic-assisted thoracic surgery
- minimally invasive surgery
- lung cancer
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