Robot-assisted choledochotomy: feasibility
G Roeyen1, T Chapelle, D Ysebaert
1Department of Hepatobiliary, Endocrine and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, B-2650 Edegem, Belgium. geert.roeyen@uza.be
Surgical Endoscopy
|November 20, 2003
Abstract:
Because clearing stones from the common bile duct is demanding with conventional laparoscopic techniques, the "da Vinci" robotic system can be of additional value in inserting a kehr drain and suturing the common bile duct. As far as we could ascertain, we report the first case of a laparoscopic choledochotomy with the assistance of this robotic system. Thanks to it, we were able to suture the common bile duct meticulously.