The development of robotic surgery in the Middle East

Figures & data

Figure 1 The MEDLINE search diagram depicting the number of hits and the number of reports included.

Table 1 The number of keywords yielded 44 hits, 15 of which are significant.

Keywords	# Keywords				%
Keywords found	7				35%
Keywords not found	13				65%
Total Keywords	20				100%
7 Keywords with Hits	# Keywords	Hits			Included	Excluded
% Included	% Excluded
Robotic surgery Saudi Arabia	1	11	9	2	82%	18%
Robotics Saudi Arabia	1	9	6	3	67%	33%
Robotics Lebanon	1	8	0	8	0%	100%
Robotics Egypt	1	8	0	8	0%	100%
Robotic surgery Lebanon	1	4	0	4	0%	100%
Robotic surgery Egypt	1	3	0	3	0%	100%
Robotics Kuwait	1	1	0	1	0%	100%
Total Keywords with Hits	7	44	15	29	34%	66%
13 Key words with no hits	# Keywords	Hits			Included	Excluded
Robotic surgery Qatar	1	0	0	0
Robotic surgery United Arab Emirates	1	0	0	0
Robotic surgery Dubai	1	0	0	0
Robotic surgery Kuwait	1	0	0	0
Robotic surgery Bahrain	1	0	0	0
Robotic surgery Tunisia	1	0	0	0
Robotic surgery Oman	1	0	0	0
Robotics Qatar	1	0	0	0
Robotics United Arab Emirates	1	0	0	0
Robotics Dubai	1	0	0	0
Robotics Bahrain	1	0	0	0
Robotics Tunisia	1	0	0	0
Robotics Oman	1	0	0	0
Total key words with no hits	1	0	0	0
Total		44	15	29	34%	66%

Figure 2 The number of robotic surgery cases in the KSA; the rapidly increasing adoption of surgical robots is due to the benefits provided to both surgeons and patients [4].

Figure 3 Robotic surgery procedures performed in the KSA by speciality.

Figure 4 Robotic surgery urological procedures in the KSA, 2003-2010.

Table 2 Robotic-assisted urological procedures in our centre.^a

Most commonly adapted procedures in order of volumes	Potential future robotics procedures
Robotic-assisted pyeloplasty	Robotic-assisted diverticulotomy
Robotic-assisted radical nephrectomy	Robotic-assisted anterior pelvic exenteration
Robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy	Robotic-assisted heminephroureterectomy
Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy	Robotic-assisted extended pyelolithotomy
	Robotic-assisted pyeloplasty and pyelolithotomy
Other common procedures	Robotic-assisted pyelo-pyeloplasty and pyelolithotomy
Robotic-assisted adrenalectomy	Robotic-assisted renal cyst decortication / excision
Robotic-assisted nephroureterectomy with or without excision of bladder cuff	Robotic-assisted donor nephrectomy
Robotic-assisted radical cystectomy	Robotic-assisted nephropexy
Robotic-assisted partial cystectomy	Robotic-assisted ureteroneocystostomy
Robotic-assisted distal ureterectomy with re-implantation	Robotic-assisted ureteroureterostomy
Robotic-assisted ureterolysis	Robotic-assisted ureterectomy
Robotic-assisted vesicovaginal fistula repair	Robotic-assisted ureterolithotomy
	Robotic-assisted ureteropyelostomy
	Robotic-assisted ureterocalicostomy

a Babar and Hemal [18].

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