Robotic transanal total mesorectal excision: Is the future now?

Table 1 Technical details of the series reporting robotic transanal total mesorectal excision

Ref.	Period of study	n	Robotic platform	Transanal interface	Patients' position	Type of Robotic TaTME	Teams	Remarks
Atallah et al[25], 2013		11	da Vinci Si	GelPOINT path	Dorsal lithotomy	Robotic-assisted	1	1st robotic TaTME
Verheijen et al[26], 2014		1	da Vinci	GelPOINT path	Lithotomy	Robotic-assisted	1
Gómez Ruiz et al[29], 2015	August 2013 January 2014	5	da Vinci Si	Transanal	Lithotomy	Totally robotic	1	1st totally robotic TaTME
				Access Port +
				GelPOINT
Atallah et al[30], 2015	November 2011 August 2014	4	da Vinci Si	GelPOINT path	Dorsal lithotomy	Robotic-assisted	1
Atallah et al[31], 2015		1	da Vinci Si	GelPOINT + Lonestar	Dorsal lithotomy	Robotic-assisted	2	1st robotic ISR + TaTME
Huscher et al[32], 2015	January 2014 April 2014	7	da Vinci Si	GelPOINT path		Robotic-assisted	1
Kuo et al[33], 2017	July 2015 March 2016	15	da Vinci Si	GelPOINT path	Lithotomy 15º trendelenburg	Totally robotic	1	Robotic SSPO
Hu et al[34], 2020	January 2016 November 2016	20	daVinci Xi	GelPOINT path	Lithotomy	Robotic-assisted	2
Monsellato et al[35], 2019	May 2017 October 2017	3	da Vinci Si	GelPOINT path	Dorsal lithotomy	Robotic-assisted	1 (2)
							2 (1)
Tan et al[36], 2020	September 2019	1				Robotic-assisted	2	Laparoscopic SSPO
Suhardja et al[37], 2020		1	da Vinci Xi	Lone Star +	Lloyd-Davies	Totally robotic	1
				GelPOINT path
Ye et al[38], 2021	May 2017 January 2020	13	da Vinci Si	STARport path	Lithotomy trendelenburg	Totally robotic (9)	1 (9)
						Robotic-assisted (4)	2 (4)

¹Patient included in the study published by Atallah et al[30] in 2015.

Remarked as the first report on robotic Transanal total mesorectal excision. SSPO: Single-site plus one port; TaTME: Transanal total mesorectal excision.