**5. Surgical technique**

### **5.1 Trocar placements**

First robotic port is a 8-mm trocar for the camera, positioned in the midline 2 cm higher to the umbilicus. Robotic port for the scissors is placed in the lateral border of right rectus muscle. Second robotic port for the bipolar forceps in the left lateral border of rectus muscle and the third port for robotic grasp is placed as lateral about 3 fingerbreadths from the anterior-superior iliac spine. One more 5-mm port for

suction, clip device and laparoscopic grasp, and a 15-mm port between the camera port and the right robotic one in a triangle position to avoid conflicts, these last port will be use for mechanical staplers. Patient is placed in a steep Trendelenburg position and the robotic system is docked [19].
