Cancerous kidney removed with one hidden incision

Monday, February 9, 2009 - 19:14 in Health & Medicine

On Thursday, 5 February 2009, surgeons at the University of California, San Diego Medical Centre removed a patient's diseased kidney through one incision hidden in the belly button. No other incisions were used. This groundbreaking procedure is the 15th in a series of single-incision clinical trial surgeries performed by the UC San Diego Centre for the Future of Surgery...

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