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

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