Papers
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Total Citations
94
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About
Adrian T. Billeter is a leading surgical researcher focused on advancing minimally invasive liver, pancreatic, and esophageal surgery. His work centers on standardizing learning curves, defining competency benchmarks, and improving outcomes through robotic and laparoscopic techniques. Billeter’s most impactful contributions include proposing a standardized framework for assessing learning curves in minimally invasive liver surgery (23 citations) and providing rare long-term follow-up data from a randomized trial comparing robotic-assisted and conventional laparoscopic fundoplication (21 citations). He has also defined phases of competency, proficiency, and mastery for robotic distal pancreatectomy (15 citations) and critically evaluated benchmarking methodologies for distal pancreatectomy outcomes (9 citations). Billeter’s research has shaped international expert consensus on key steps for complex robotic liver surgery and validated risk scores for postoperative pancreatic fistula. His work is widely cited and influential in surgical education, as seen in his scoping review on training future surgeons. Billeter’s contributions are instrumental in establishing evidence-based standards for safe, effective adoption of advanced minimally invasive surgical techniques.
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- 3Competency, Proficiency, and Mastery15 citations · 2024
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- 8Total-minimalinvasive Ösophagektomie3 citations · 2020
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- 10Conversion of Robotic Distal Pancreatectomy2 citations · 2025