Robotic pyeloplasty: Technological global panacea or geo-surgical nightmare?

Panagiotis Nikolinakos; Nikolaos Chatzikrachtis; Ivo Donkov; Elisavet Kotsi; Georgios Antonoglou; Ioannis Alexandrou; Nikolaos Zavras; Joseph M. Norris

doi:10.4081/aiua.2024.12263

Authors

Panagiotis Nikolinakos
pnikolinakos@yahoo.gr
Department of Urology, West Middlesex University Hospital, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; Department of Pediatric Surgery, School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8427-7223
Nikolaos Chatzikrachtis Department of Urology, West Middlesex University Hospital, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Ivo Donkov Department of Urology, West Middlesex University Hospital, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Elisavet Kotsi Department of Pediatrics, Penteli Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0450-7875
Georgios Antonoglou Department of Urology, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom. https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9328-6954
Ioannis Alexandrou Department of Pediatric Surgery, Pendeli Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Nikolaos Zavras Department of Pediatric Surgery, School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Joseph M. Norris UCL Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London, United Kingdom.

To the Editor,
Pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction (PUJO) is a well-recognised clinical entity characterised by functionally significant impairment of drainage of urine at the level of the pelvi-ureteric junction due to extrinsic or intrinsic obstruction and is encountered both by adult and paediatric urologists alike. Management of PUJO has been surgical historically, and the gold standard has been an open Anderson-Hynes dismembered pyeloplasty [...]

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Nikolinakos, P., Chatzikrachtis, N., Donkov, I., Kotsi, E., Antonoglou, G., Alexandrou, I., Zavras, N., & Norris, J. M. (2024). Robotic pyeloplasty: Technological global panacea or geo-surgical nightmare?. Archivio Italiano Di Urologia E Andrologia, 96(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/aiua.2024.12263