Chapter 19 - Robotic surgery for liver cancer and applications in liver transplantation

Robotic surgery is a transformative technology that is increasingly applied to liver transplantation with promising results. There has been a surge in growth of minimally invasive surgical techniques in the field of liver transplantation, particularly in living donor hepatectomy, which reduces donor morbidity and mortality. Robotic surgery has several advantages over laparoscopic surgery, including improved range of motion, surgical field visualization, and fine motor control over surgical instruments. Surgical oncology has embraced robotic surgery with excellent results. It is increasingly utilized in liver transplantation as well, resulting in less intraoperative blood loss, shorter hospital length of stay, and other measures of postoperative morbidity.