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Article: Future Is Now for Robotic Surgery.(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- August 14, 2000
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Surgeons have perfected a minimally invasive technique to perform very delicate abdominal surgery using computer-assisted instruments and three-dimensional imaging.
For 100 years the standard for abdominal surgery was "rip `em open, sew 'em up." But all this changed in 1988 when surgeons working in Nashville and Marietta, Ga., figured out how to poke a tiny TV camera into a small incision in the abdomen, insert laparoscopic tools in other slits and remove a gallbladder. In less than a decade -- and in the face of grudging acceptance from the medical establishment -- they revolutionized abdominal surgery with what they called "the minimally invasive method."
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