Michigan Hospital Uses Robotic Surgery for Kidney Removal
August 27, 2008 by MedHeadlines
Filed under Cancer, MedTech
Surgeons at the Henry Ford Hospital have just announced their use of a three-dimensional robotic surgical technique they used to successfully remove a cancerous tumor from a 50 years old patient. The technique, SIRS nephrectomy, allows the removal of all or part of a damaged kidney with much less trauma than conventional surgical techniques do. Read more





