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Over the past 10 years, robotic surgery has become much more common in operating rooms across the country. And while it is most frequently used in urology and gynecology departments, robotic surgery is now appearing in plastic surgery procedures, too.Dr. Jesse Selber, an assistant professor of plastic surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center, is revolutionizing breast cancer reconstruction surgeries with the da Vinci surgical system technology. "I started using it in 2008 as a resident to develop some of these techniques, and really have been the person driving the application in plastic surgery. That being said, there's been a huge amount of enthusiasm for robotics in plastic surgery," Selber told FoxNews.com.Typically, during breast reconstruction surgery, a large incision is made in the patient's back to harvest the latissimus dorsi muscle, which is what doctors use to create a new breast after a mastectomy.But with the robot, Selber doesn't have to cut into the patient's back – making ...
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Surgeons have been using robotics to perform surgery in urology and gynecology departments for more than 10 years. But now surgeons at MD Anderson Cancer Center are utilizing the same technology for breast cancer reconstruction procedures
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Surgery has come a long way in the past 50 years. You'll see what we mean as we follow "Medical A Team" member Dr. David Samadi into the operating room for a look at robotic prostate surgery
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Fox News contributor Dr. David Samadi gives his opinion on the benefits of robotic surgery .
Robotic surgery is increasingly being used for women's hysterectomies, adding at least $2,000 to the cost without offering much benefit over less high-tech methods, ...
Patients who have robot-assisted surgeries on their kidneys or prostate have shorter hospital stays and a lower risk of having a blood transfusion or dying -- but th...
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Dr. Daniel Wickert is one of the local obstetrician-gynecologists who uses the da Vinci Surgical System, a $1.5 million robot-assisting surgical device housed at St....
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