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[Is there a real place for robotics in proximal tubal surgery?]
J Delotte1, O Mialon, S Bouaziz
1Service de gynécologie-obstétrique-reproduction et de médecine fœtale, université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, hôpital de l'Archet-2, CHU de Nice, route Saint-Antoine-de-Ginestière, Nice, France. delotte.j@chu-nice.fr
Abstract:
Tubal surgery requires a fine gesture. Its complexity, the difficulty of learning, the low recognition at the time of T2A and the success of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) could have announced the obituary of this surgery. However, in well-trained hands, tubal surgery avoids unnecessary ARTs and even allows pregnancies when medical technology fails. In this context, it is legitimate to ask whether the contribution of new technologies in the operating theatre, such as robotic surgery, can lead to an easy realization of microsurgery on a particularly complex portion of Fallopian tubes: the proximal segment.
