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COPYRIGHT 2005 International Medical News Group
NEW ORLEANS -- Using a robot to perform a minimally invasive radical prostatectomy resulted in less blood loss, faster recovery, and better surgical outcomes in a case series of 300 men, Vipul Patel, M.D., reported at the annual clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons.
The procedure has been available since 2001, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the prostatectomy application of the robot, the da Vinci Surgical System, made by Intuitive Surgical Inc.
But it's not widely available, because of the machine's cost (about $1.3 million), the specialized...
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