This book describes the current state of robotics in plastic and reconstructive surgery. It examines existing clinical applications, emerging and future applications and evolving technological platforms.

Concise yet comprehensive, this book is organized into four sections. It begins with an introduction to robotic microsurgical training and robotic skills assessment, including crowd-sourced evaluation in surgery. Section two explores a variety of robotic clinical application, including robotic breast reconstruction, robotic mastectomy, robotic cleft palate surgery and robotic microsurgery in a urologic private practice. Following this, section three addresses the opportunities and challenges an interested surgeon might face when considering incorporating this technology into their practice. To close, the final section discusses new microsurgical robotic platforms and the potential directions this technology may take in the future. 

Supplemented with high quality videos and images, Robotics in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is an invaluable resource for both plastic surgeons and multi-specialty micro-surgeons.

Section 1: Training and Evaluation

1. Robotic Microsurgical Training
2. Robotic Skills Assessment-Crowd-Sourced Evaluation in Surgery and Future Directions in Plastic Surgery
Section 2: Clinical Applications
3. Robotic Harvest of the Rectus Abdominis Muscle
4. Robotic breast reconstruction with the Latissimus Dorsi Flap
5. The RoboDIEP: Robotic Assisted Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flaps for Breast Reconstruction
6. Robotic Nerve and Upper Extremity Surgery
7. Robotic Cleft Palate Surgery and Simulation
8. Robotic Microsurgery in Urology Private Practice: Advantages and Outcomes
9. Robotic nipple-sparing mastectomy with immediate prosthetic breast reconstruction
Section 3: Considerations for a Robotic Plastic Surgery Practice
10. Incorporating robotics into a plastic surgery practice
Section 4: New Microsurgical Robotic Platforms
11. Development of a New Robotic Platform for Microsurgery
12. A dedicated robotic system for open (super)microsurgery.