New Delhi, April 19: The country’s first robot- assisted urological surgery was today conducted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here.
The operation was carried out by Dr P N Dogra, Professor and Head, Department of Urology, on a 50-year-old woman who was suffering from cancer of urethra and urinary bladder last week.
The surgery called the ‘Anterior Pelvic Exenteration’ involved removal of the urinary bladder, uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, anterior vaginal wall, urethra and pelvic lymph nodes of the patient, the hospital said in a statement today.
This kind of surgery was done for the first time in the country by the Department of Urology at AIIMS, it said.
AIIMS officials said that the hospital has initiated a drive to maximise the use of Robot so that maximum number of patients can be benefited.
–Agencies