Houston 2011 – Pittsburgh Surgical Oncology Robotic Experience

F. Cianchi Lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer is considered to be technically difficult to perform in conventional laparoscopic surgery. The robotic system has been introduced to overcome some of these technical limitations. Moreover the da Vinci robotic platform allows near-infrared fluorescence imaging (NIFI) with indocyanine green (ICG) to be integrated into the surgical field. A 0