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Robot, Standard Laparoscopic Surgery Have Similar Outcomes for Endometrial Cancer
Robot, Standard Laparoscopic Surgery Have Similar Outcomes for Endometrial Cancer
H Splete
20100217
2010 Mar 17
Elsevier Global Medical News
Robot, Standard Laparoscopic Surgery Have Similar Outcomes for Endometrial Cancer
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2010 Mar 17, H Splete
SAN FRANCISCO (EGMN) - Surgical outcomes for patients with endometrial cancer were similar regardless of whether they received robotically-assisted laparoscopic surgery or standard transperitoneal laparoscopic surgery, but the robotically assisted approach lessened the postoperative hospitalization time, according to a poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists.Dr. Mario M. Leitao Jr. and colleagues at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York compared...