The Current State of Robotic Surgery in Urology
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Nephrology & Urology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 760
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cystectomy; bladder cancer; prostate cancer; ureterocutaneostomy; urologic oncology
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to present the Special Issue "The Current State of Robotic Surgery in Urology", with the aim of collecting clinical–surgical updates in the field of urological robotic surgery.
Robotic surgery has effectively replaced open and laparoscopic surgery; all urological interventions can now be performed through the robotic approach, and for many indications, robotic surgery represents the gold-standard technique.
In this Special Issue, in particular, the robotic experience will be shared in terms of consolidation of the technique, selection of patients, dedicated post-operative patient management protocols, implementation and improvement of old surgical indications, new clinical–surgical indications and new technologies applied to robotic surgery.
In this way, the experience of different operational units can be shared, with the aim of defining the state of the art, updating the situation of "robotic" trends and with the aim of increasing the knowledge of all urologists.
The following formats will be considered and accepted: original articles and reviews.
Dr. Luca Di Gianfrancesco
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- robotic surgery
- urology
- surgical technique
- multi-port
- single port
- major urological surgery
- reconstructive surgery
- robot-assisted radical cystectomy
- patients’ selection
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