July 15, 2005
New Robot Helps Perform Surgeries
This surgical assistant can function well without sleep, and it doesn't complain about the pay.
Surgeons at the University of North Carolina Hospitals are raving about a robot named da Vinci. It helps remove cancerous prostates, perform hysterectomies for cervical cancers, and bypass blocked coronary arteries, among other surgeries.
The robot allows surgeons a magnified view of patients' insides, through a camera housed in a rod that is inserted through a small incision. The rod
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