A kidney removed through the navel in a single incision using a robot. A first in Europe. French, the technical feat was carried out by the urology department of the Rennes University Hospital.
Behind his remote control console, equipped with glasses through which he sees the 3D images taken by the camera, he controls the arms of the surgical robot to remove the kidney. To extract it, the doctor made a single small incision at the level of the navel in which he slides two forceps and a camera that he guides from the robot. After three hours, the kidney is removed through the small 2 cm orifice that was used to introduce the forceps, explains the Chu network site. This technical feat was carried out on January 21 by Prof. Karim Bensalah, doctor in the urulogy department of the Rennes University Hospital.
The removal of the kidney through the navel in a single incision is not a first. But this time, the operation was performed with a single incision and with the help of a robot. This is a first in Europe. The team of doctors from Rennes performed the ablation of a kidney (total nephrectomy) on a patient suffering from a localized cancer using the so-called mono trocar technology, which combines single orifice surgery and robotic surgery. Considered by specialists as “minimally invasive”, it also helps to limit bleeding during the operation and reduce postoperative pain. In the end, a more pleasant alternative for patients than a “laparotomy”, this wide incision in the abdomen of at least ten centimeters.
The patient also appreciates the advantages of this procedure where the pain is reduced and the aesthetic result optimal. As proof, the scar is almost invisible. The operated person was able to return home 3 days after the operation and is doing well. .
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