The gallbladder concentrates and stores bile as a pear-shaped sac which it can release to help digestion after a fatty meal.
Intracorporeal view of robotic paraesophageal hernia repair
A piece of Bard Allomax mesh is used to buttress the repair of the hiatus during a paraesophageal hernia repair. Looking carefully, one can appreciate that the tips of the robotic instruments are at 90 degree angles to the shaft of the instruments. This angulation is not optimal with typical laparoscopic instrumentation. The robots articulating wrists allow intracoporeal suturing at the extreme angles required.
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Robotic Surgery
Technology continues to advance exponentially. This rapid advancement in the health care armamentarium has resulted in technology that reduces the invasiveness and hypothetical recovery times of a variety of surgical…