Robotic Pancreaticoduodenectomy: Surgical Procedure and Experience

The development of minimally invasive robotic surgery has always been the focus of the discipline. Pancreaticoduodenectomy has been regarded as the "Mount Everest" of surgical operations because of its high risk and mounting difficulty. Standardized surgical steps and easy-to-follow operation techniques are helpful to promote the application of robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy (RPD). Therefore, in this paper, we summarize the RPD to form an 18-step surgery procedure and analyze the key points of circumferential vessel resection and reconstructive anastomosis techniques, based on the experience of RPD at the First Medical Center of Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, with the hope of promoting the in-depth application of robotics in pancreatic surgery and furthering the establishment of RPD application standards.