Execution of robot-assisted biopsies within the clinical context

Abstract

This paper describes the first prostatic biopsy on a human patient using a robotic and telerobotic system. This system was designed at the Politecnico di Milano, and the biopsy was performed on April 7, 1995, in the Hospital Policlinico in Milan, Italy. J Image Guid Surg 1:280–287 (1995). © 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.