Robotic Surgery of the Bladder

History of minimally invasive techniques for radical cystectomy with urinary diversion.- Principles of bladder cancer surgery.- Robot Assisted Cystectomy: Getting started - prior experience, learning curve, and initial patient selection.- Robotic Cystectomy: Room set-up, patient positioning, instrumentation, and anesthetic considerations.- Preoperative preparation and care.- Robot Assisted Radical Cystectomy - Male.- Robotic assisted laparoscopic anterior pelvic exenteration for bladder cancer in the female.- Variations in surgical approach - partial cystectomy, vaginal-sparing, and prostate-sparing.- Robot-Assisted Pelvic Lymphadenectomy.- Extracorporeal urinary diversion.- Robot Assisted Intracorporeal ileal conduit.- Intracorporeal ileal neobladder.- Peri-operative care - the radical cystectomy pathway.- Oncologic outcomes.- Peri-operative outcomes and complications of robot assisted cystectomy.- Surgical avoidance and management of operative complications.- Cost of robotic assisted radical cystectomy.- Questions and concerns of robotic approaches to bladder cancer surgery.- Robot assisted surgery for benign disease of the bladder.- Future directions in robotic surgery for bladder cancer.