Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 6 , Pages 2620-2622 , June 2009

Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery in gynecology: scientific dream or reality?

  • Camran Nezhat, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Center for Special Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Camran Nezhat, M.D., 900 Welch Road Suite 403, Palo Alto, CA 94304 (FAX: 650-327-2794).
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  • Ofer Lavie, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Carmel Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Hafia, Israel
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  • Madeleine Lemyre, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Center for Special Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California
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  • Ebru Unal, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Center for Special Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California
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  • Ceana H. Nezhat, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Center for Special Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California
    • Atlanta Center for Special Minimally Invasive Surgery and Reproductive Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
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  • Farr Nezhat, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, Division of Oncology and Reproductive Science, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

Received 21 September 2007 ,Revised 25 March 2008 ,Accepted 25 March 2008.

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 C.N. has received honorarium from Intuitive Surgical. O.L. has nothing to disclose. M.L. has nothing to disclose. E.U. has nothing to disclose. C.H.N. has nothing to disclose. F.N. has nothing to disclose.

 This study has no source of funding and was not presented at any meeting.

PII: S0015-0282(08)00744-9

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.03.070

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 6 , Pages 2620-2622 , June 2009

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