PLAFOKON: a new concept for a patient-individual and intervention-specific flexible surgical platform.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research in the field of surgery is mainly driven by aiming for trauma reduction as well as for personalized treatment concepts. Beyond laparoscopy, other proposed approaches for further reduction of the therapeutic trauma have failed to achieve clinical translation, with few notable exceptions. We believe that this is mainly due to a lack of flexibility and high associated costs. We aimed at addressing these issues by developing a novel minimally invasive operating platform and a preoperative design workflow for patient-individual adaptation and cost-effective rapid manufacturing of surgical manipulators. In this article, we report on the first in-vitro cholecystectomy performed with our operating platform.

Methods

The single-port overtube (SPOT) is a snake-like

SUBMITTER: Bernhard L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9160157 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature