Urology
Volume 71, Issue 1 , Pages 168.e5-168.e6, January 2008

Intraoperative Breakage of Needle Driver Jaw During Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy

Departments of Urology, College of Medicine, Urological Science Institute and Brain Korea 21 Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Received 17 May 2007; accepted 20 September 2007.

Recently, increasing numbers of robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) have been performed at many centers. During urethrovesical anastomosis in RALP, surgeons commonly use Large Needle Driver (Intuitive Surgical, Mountain View, Calif). In this study, we report a rare case with intraperitoneal breakage of the jaw of Large Needle Driver.

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PII: S0090-4295(07)02178-4

doi:10.1016/j.urology.2007.09.052

Urology
Volume 71, Issue 1 , Pages 168.e5-168.e6, January 2008

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