Editorial Comment for the paper entitled "Robotic simple prostatectomy is safe and effective technique for benign prostatic hyperplasia: Our single center initial results for 42 patients".

Abstract

I congratulate the authors for their valuable study titled “Robotic simple prostatectomy is safe and effective technique for benign prostatic hyperplasia: Our single center initial results for 42 patients.” After technologic improvements and the development of new endoscopic systems, surgical approaches have changed dramatically in recent years. It has become an obligation to adapt to developing technologies for the surgeons. One of the branches of surgery in which this change and adaptation is the fastest and most prominent is urology. As urologists, we have been experiencing this change clearly in the last 20 years. After the introduction of robotic surgery into daily urology practice, there is an increasing trend in many countries to perform a robotassisted surgery in all of the cases. There is even an exaggerated incentive to conduct robotic surgery. Open simple prostatectomy (OSP) is one of those overly encouraged surgeries. Although robot-assisted surgery is suitable and reasonable for some urological surgeries, we should provide an answer to the question whether or not robotic surgery is really necessary for all types of urological surgery.