“…Recent studies have shown that laparoscopic robot-assisted pancreaticoduodenectomy (RAPD) may be safely feasible [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]. The da Vinci surgical system (dVss; Intuitive Surgical Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., USA) is a computer-assisted telemanipulator, which allows a remote surgeon to handle tissues, drive electromechanical devices and perform intracorporeal sutures while working through laparoscopic ports.…”