Robot-assisted partial nephrectomy: excellent outcomes can persist despite previous abdominal surgery.

The article reports that rise in robot-assisted surgery has made the patient selection an important task to ensure mitigation of risk, patient safety, and allow for the surgeon's training curve. A study examined 1686 patients who had undergone RAPN from a prospective database from five large American academic institutions. A sub-group of 216 patients had undergone major prior abdominal surgery (PAS).