Da Vinci Robot

What is the Da Vinci Robot?

The da Vinci robot is another tool for the treatment of patients with oncological and functional pathologies such as:

• Prostate cancer. The da Vinci robot is used to perform minimally invasive surgery for prostate cancer. This technology makes it possible to perform a radical prostatectomy, i.e. the removal of the prostate and seminal vesicles (glands that store semen), with greater precision, preserving, in tumors located within the prostate, the nerves and anatomical structures associated with erection and urinary continence. The Da Vinci robot allows better results than the usual non-robotic techniques.

• Kidney cancer. Total removal of the organ can be performed in cases of larger tumors or partial removal, keeping most of the kidney.

• Bladder cancer. Patients with a diagnosis of bladder carcinoma with invasion of the muscular layer or those who, with other types of tumors, require total bladder removal can be operated through robotic surgery, allowing, in addition, the reconstruction of the urinary tract by means of a new bladder from inside the patient's body or, when this is not possible, to make a conduit to be able to drain urine from the kidneys.

• Lymph nodes. In those patients who, as a consequence of testicular tumors or other retroperitoneal tumors, need to remove the lymph nodes of the abdomen, robotic surgery offers great precision and, being a highly complex surgery, this surgical technique will maximize the results, decreasing possible complications.

• Functional pathologies such as a congenital malformation that causes dilatation of the renal pelvis and consequent deterioration of renal function, or prolapse of the bladder through the vagina (cystocele) can be surgically corrected with robotic surgery.

Unlike other techniques such as laparoscopy, where the movement of the instruments is limited, robotic surgery is capable of reproducing the degrees of freedom of a hand, conferring a mobility far superior to that of older surgical techniques, which increases the quality standards of minimally invasive surgery. The Da Vinci robot improves the surgeon's hand gestures and reproduces them with millimetric accuracy, reducing tremor, improving ergonomics and making it possible to scale the magnitude of surgical movements. This technology also enables high-definition 3D vision, with high image quality that enhances the identification and treatment of tissues.

Da Vinci Single Port (SP)

The new Da Vinci Single Port (SP) surgical robot is the most advanced version of the Da Vinci system, designed to perform minimally invasive surgery through a single incision or single entry port. Unlike previous models that required multiple arms and access ports, the Da Vinci SP concentrates all robotic tools into a single entry port, allowing for even less invasive surgery.

The da Vinci SP provides significant advantages in the following urological procedures:

• Prostatectomy: removal of the prostate with maximum precision and minimal invasion.
• Cystectomy: surgery for the treatment of bladder cancer with optimized recovery.
• Partial or total nephrectomy: procedure to preserve or remove the kidney in a less aggressive manner.
• Reconstructive surgery of the urinary tract: Treatments for urethral strictures (urethral narrowing) and other complex urological pathologies.

At ROC Clinic we have the Da Vinci Single Port surgical robot in our therapeutic arsenal, being the first in Spain to operate with this technology that allows us to make a very important qualitative leap in minimally invasive surgery.