Abstrakt
Over the past few years, technological developments in global medicine have given rise to a whole series of new surgical techniques, particularly in minimally invasive surgery (Dion et al., 1996). Few people can now imagine general surgery or gynaecology without laparoscopic techniques, although his was not initially the case.
Total laparoscopic aortoiliac surgery can be performed on patients with occlusive diseases and aneurysms. Robotics, which began to appear in 2000, is a state-of-the-art surgical technology (Marescaux et al., 2001).
The Department of Vascular Surgery at Prague’s Na Homolce Hospital has been performing laparoscopic reconstructions since 2003 and these have > been robot-assisted since the end of 2005. Under the direction of Dr.
Petr Štádler, the robotic vascular team has not only created its own modified transperitoneal approach for these interventions, but has catapulted Czech robotic vascular surgery to the forefront of this modality worldwide.