Our department offers various robotic urology procedures in the surgical management of urological cancers and diseases performed by experienced faculty members.

Koç University Hospital Department of Urology has been appointed as ERUS Robotic Surgery Training Center starting from 11 December 2019 for a 5-year period (ERUS: European Association of Urology Robotic Urology Section).

Robotic prostate cancer and prostate surgery:

*Robotic radical prostatectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection with classical technique or Martini Klinik neurosafe technique (ICG application is used in selected cases)
*Robotic prostate adenemectomy in BPH

Renal/kidney masses/cancers and upper urinary tract robotic surgery:

*Robotic partial nephrectomy (zero ischemia and ICG application in selected cases)
*Robotic nephroureterectomy with bladder cuff excision
*Robotic adrenalectomy
*Robotic pyeloplasty (in UPJ obstruction)

Robotic bladder cancer surgery:

*Robotic radical cystectomy with intracorporeal urinary diversion (ileal loop and neobladder/Studer pouch)

Robotik pyeloplasty:

In UP junction obstruction

Robotic adrenalectomy:

In adrenal gland masses and tumors

Da Vinci xi dual console surgical robot

Patient cart:

Console:

Vision cart:

HD 3D camera

Robotic instruments

Robotik surgery operating room

Preparation of the patient and conncetion of the surgical robot to patient’s body (docking)

Performing robotic surgical procedure

On 3-4 January 2020, Prof. Dr. Karel Decaestecker from Gent University Hospital, Department of Urology in Belgium visited our hospital following our invitation in order to observe the robotic renal transplantation cases performed by Prof. Burak Koçak and his team at Koç University Hospital. Prof. Dr. Karel Decaestecker is a member of scientific and working groups of European Association of Urology (EAU) Robotic Urology Section (ERUS) and has very much experience on robotic renal transplantation. We had the chance of sharing experience and knowledge with Prof. Dr. Karel Decaestecker particularly on robotic surgery. We also agreed to plan joint projects between two institutions for the future. We would like to thank very much to Prof. Dr. Karel Decaestecker for his support and visit to our department.