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Marco Ramera,1 Isacco Damoli,1 Alessandro Giardino,2 Claudio Bassi,1 Giovanni Butturini21General Surgery Unit B, The Pancreas Institute, Verona University Hospital Trust, 2Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit, Casa di Cura Pederzoli, Peschiera del Garda, Verona, ItalyAbstract: Pancreatic surgery represents one of the most challenging fields in general surgery. Its complexity is related to the severity of the disease and the technical skills required for surgical approach. Given this, most pancreatic resections are performed through classic open surgery. Minimally invasive approaches are gradually gaining widespread popularity also in this specific setting, as for distal resections and enucleations. The robotic platform, due to its 3-dimensional vision and articulated movements, represents the natural progress of laparoscopic surgery overcoming the technical defaults and opening up the possibility to perform major pancreatic resections as pancreaticoduodenectomies. This review focuses on the impact of robotic platform in pancreatic surgery in terms of surgical and oncological outcome.Keywords: robotic surgery, pancreatic neoplasms, minimally invasive surgical procedures, pancreatectomy, pancreaticoduodenectomy |