BookGo Watanabe, editor.
Contents:
1. Overview of robotic surgery
2. The de Vinci Surgical® systesm
3. Development of robotic systems
4. Robotic surgery in urology
5. Robotic gastrectomy for gastric cancer
6. Esophageal cancer surgery: robotic esophagectomy - 7. Lateral pelvic node dissection for advanced rectal cancer: current debates and use of the robotic approach
8. Cardiac surgery: overview
9. Robotically assisted totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting
10. Robotic surgery for mitral valve disease
11. Robotic surgery in general thoracic surgery
12. Robot-assisted thyroidectomy.