Robotic pancreatic surgery -- no substitute for experience and clinical judgment: an initial experience and literature review.

Robotic pancreatic surgery offers technical advantages, and has found applications across many surgical specialties. We report an initial experience of 12 distal pancreatic resections for benign tumors, from an established pancreatic center with previous general and biliary laparoscopic experience. 7/12 were females, the mean age was 55.5 years; and the lesions included 8 distal Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Tumors, 1 insulinoma and in 3 a nonfunctioning neuroendocrine tumor. All operations were done between 90 and 180 minutes,and blood loss and hospital stay were minimal

via World Journal of Surgical Oncology