improve adenoma detection rates? I think the technology needs to get
better and become more user-friendly."
Robotics continues to push the boundaries of what's possible in
such specialties as general surgery and orthopedics. Some see
remote controlled, self-propelled colonoscopes as the basis for
the robotic future of diagnostic and therapeutic platforms.
Robotics, for example, could improve a physician's ability to remove
complex lesions from the colon wall, a difficult task made even more
challenging as each breath the patient takes causes the wall to move
ever so slightly.
"With a robotic instrument, you could perform micro movements
that essentially match the breaths of the patient for a more careful
dissection," says Carlo Traverso, MD, PhD, a gastroenterologist at
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