Surgical robot removes throat tumour for the first time

For the first time in the UK, a robot has been used by a surgical team to remove a cancerous tumour from a patient’s throat.

 

Surgeons at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Steve Hornby and Simon Higgs, employed the Versius robot to remove a tumour from the patient’s oesophagus.

 

Previously, operating on the oesophagus would have been performed through open surgery, with the surgeon making the incision manually.  Using the Versius surgical robot made it possible to operate on the patient using minimal access surgery, creating smaller incisions, reducing post-operative pain, complications and scarring.

 

Mr Higgs, upper gastrointestinal consultant, said “Upper GI is an extremely busy department and adopting Versius signifies a new era for the specialty, as many more patients will receive minimal access surgery.”

 

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Posted by Karen Motley, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

 

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