Table 5. Equipment needed for the robotic-assisted transaxillary/retroauricular approach.

Development of the working space

Electrocautery with a short, regular and long tip

Vascular DeBakey

Army-navy retractors

Right-angled retractors

Breast lighted retractors*

Table devices

Chung’s retractor, or Marina retractor (Marina Medical, Sunrise, FL, USA)

Laparoscopic suction irrigator

Laparoscopic clip appliers for hemostasis

Endo Peanut 5-mm device

Robotic instrumentation

5-mm Maryland dissector

8-mm ProGrasp forceps

5-mm Harmonic curved shears

30-degree endoscope (used in the rotated down position)

Robotic arrangement

Arm 1—Maryland dissector

Arm 2—Harmonic shears

Arm 3—ProGrasp forceps

Endoscope—30-degree rotated down

*, transaxillary approach only.