A kidney tumour has been removed
without leaving scars on the organ in a world first at a Milan
hospital, sources said Tuesday.
The tumour was more than 20 cm long and extended up to the heart
of the 83-year-old patient.
It was removed without having to open up the abdomen or chest
thanks to the combined use of a robot and a tumour-sucking tube,
which was inserted into a vein in the patient's neck.
"This is the first time in the world that such an intervention
has been attempted," the Niguarda Hospital sources said.
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