Robotic surgery in gastrointestinal tumor

The application of robotic surgery can provide solutions to the many drawbacks of traditional laparoscopic surgery.Robotic surgery is a feasible and safe procedure for patients with gastrointestinal tumor.It can harvest adequate lymph node with low postoperative morbidity.Longer follow-up and further raudomized clinical trials are needed to validate the utility and efficacy of this technology in the field of gastrointestinal surgery. Key words: Robotics;  Surgical procedures, operative;  Stomach neoplasms;  Colonic neoplasms