What is Robotic Thoracic Surgery?
Ports dock to a robotic platform. Wristed instruments work at the fissure, vessels and mediastinum with magnified three-dimensional vision. The resection inside the chest is still defined by which lobe, segment or nodes are taken. The robot is an access and instrument platform. It does not make a pneumonectomy into a lobectomy, and it does not replace staging. Compare robotic quotes only against the same named resection.





