The sky is clear: Robotic surgery is now a valuable player in pediatric urology practice

Abstract

Robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RALS) is one of the trending topics in pediatric urology in the last two decade. Historically, the frst introduction of this technology in pediatric urological surgeries started with pyeloplasty [1]; then it had increasingly being used in daily practice worldwide. Since then, the numbers of publications have increased and the feasibility of the robotic surgery has been tested for a variety of the procedures