A kidney tumour has been removed by
a robot surgeon while the patient was awake in a world first in
Turin, the Molinette Hospital said Wednesday.
The groundbreaking operation was performed in the Molinette's
urology university department.
It used the Da Vinci robot system and innovative 3-D image
reconstruction technologies, doctors said.
The malign tumour was removed and the kidney saved, they said.
Italian hospitals have been at the cutting edge of robotic
surgery in recent years.
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