Time to take another look at perceived disadvantages of robotic hepatectomy

Robotic hepatectomy remains controversial to date, despite continuous advances in the technology and more surgeons gaining experience with the method. Melstrom et al . (1) recently published an interesting article in Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition, titled “ Selecting incision-dominant cases for robotic liver resection: towards outpatient hepatectomy with rapid recovery .” The authors evaluated 97 cases of robotically-assisted liver...