Perioperative outcomes of robot-assisted, laparoscopic or thoracoscopic, and open surgery across 13 cancer operations: a single-institution cohort of 36,208 cases
To compare perioperative outcomes of robot-assisted surgery, video-assisted (laparoscopic or thoracoscopic) surgery and open surgery across 13 oncologic procedure groups, because aggregate technology-level comparison is confounded by procedure mix and by the calendar time at which each specialty adopted robotics. In th...