Surgical procedures carried out at a distance thanks to advances in robotic and computer technology and their applications to surgery. The first demonstration of trans-Atlantic telesurgery was reported in 2001 when surgeons in New York operated on a 68-year-old woman in Strasbourg, France and used remote-controlled robots to resect (took out) her g [..]

Use of telepresence and/or teleoperation techniques allowing a surgeon to operate at a location remote from his real physical location. Sometimes also used to refer to remote medical diagnosis of certain conditions, useful in areas where access to medical facilities is scarce.