Urologists have always been leaders in advancing surgical technology, including
endoscopic transurethral surgery, the use of lasers for various applications, and were early
adopters and innovators of laparoscopy in the early 1990s. 1 Less than a decade later,
urologists were the first to use the modern robotic surgical system, as Pasticier and
colleagues 2 reported their experience of robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical proctectomy.
Although this case series only included 5 patient participants, it was the first to show the …