GKNM Hospital, Coimbatore, performed over 150 robotic surgeries in different specialities after the launch of a fourth generation robotic surgical system last year, said the hospital’s Chief Executive Officer Ragupathy Veluswamy on Tuesday.
The surgeries performed using Da Vinci Xi Robotic Surgical System covered organs currently amenable to robotic intervention, including lungs, esophagus, stomach, thyroid, pancreas, liver, colon, rectum, kidneys, bladder, prostrate, uterus and heart. Robot-assisted scarless thyroidectomy, gastrectomy and thymectomy were among notable procedures performed during the period, according to the hospital.
