Enrico Benedetti

About

Enrico Benedetti is a pioneering surgeon whose work has fundamentally reshaped minimally invasive and robotic approaches to complex abdominal procedures, with particular expertise in transplant surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, and pancreatic surgery. Over the course of his career, Benedetti has been instrumental in demonstrating that robotic technology can be safely and effectively applied to some of the most technically demanding operations in modern surgery. His landmark contributions include early adoption of robotic-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy — work that garnered over 200 citations and helped establish minimally invasive living donor procurement as a clinical standard. He extended this innovation to liver surgery, publishing influential studies on robotic liver resections (301 citations) and robotic right lobe donor hepatectomy, and produced one of the first comparative analyses of robotic versus open pancreaticoduodenectomy (199 citations). Perhaps most strikingly, Benedetti pioneered robotic kidney transplantation for morbidly obese patients previously excluded from transplantation — a breakthrough approach that has accumulated nearly 190 citations and expanded access to life-saving care for a historically underserved population. His body of work, spanning two decades and thousands of cumulative citations, continues to define the frontier of robotic surgery in transplantation and beyond.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Robotic liver surgery: Results for 70 resections

   301 citations · 2010
2. 2
   Robotic-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy for kidney transplantation

   211 citations · 2002
3. 3
   Robotic Versus Open Pancreaticoduodenectomy: A Comparative Study at a Single Institution

   199 citations · 2011
4. 4
   Minimally Invasive Robotic Kidney Transplantation for Obese Patients Previously Denied Access to Transplantation

   190 citations · 2013
5. 5
   Robot-assisted right lobe donor hepatectomy

   166 citations · 2011
6. 6
   Robotic liver surgery: technical aspects and review of the literature

   130 citations · 2016
7. 7
   Early Experience With Robotically Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy

   73 citations · 2002
8. 8
   Routine left robotic-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy is safe and effective regardless of the presence of vascular anomalies

   65 citations · 2006
9. 9
   Simultaneous robotic kidney transplantation and bariatric surgery for morbidly obese patients with end-stage renal failure

   62 citations · 2020
10. 10
    State of the Art of Robotic Surgery in Organ Transplantation

    58 citations · 2013

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