A single operating session, a single operation to remove two different types of tumor. It happens in Bologna, at the IRCCS Policlinico Sant’Orsola, where a colon tumor and a kidney tumor were removed almost simultaneously from a 75-year-old patient, thanks to the “collaboration” of the last of the robot surgeons to arrive at the operational units of Sant’Orsola (among excellent hospitals for gastroenterology and urology), the “Hugo” robot arrived after “Da Vinci” and “Da Vinci
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The case of the patient with three tumors
The patient ended up under the robotic hands – and of teams led by professors Matteo Rottolispecialist in Alimentary Tract Surgery and Emergencies of the IRCCS, e Riccardo Schiavina, Urology specialist – actually had three different tumors: a papillary renal carcinoma, an adenocarcinoma in the right colon and a cancerous polyp in the left side of the colon. The polyp was removed via endoscopic surgery, while the two carcinomas were removed in a single operating session. During the session, the left kidney and right colon were removed.
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Faster recovery thanks to robots
The use of the robot in the surgical room allows specialists to improve the performance of the operation: the robot’s arms are attached to trolleys that can move separately and it is possible to view and superimpose 3D models of the patient during the operation. All this allows both to see better and to facilitate surgeons’ maneuvers, potentially allowing them to drive even more complex interventions, explain from Sant’Orsola. But not only. “Thanks to the open console, the new robot allows us to increase the possibility of training in the surgical field since more surgeons have access to the 3D screen and can easily pass the instruments for teaching the various steps of the operation,” commented Schiavina.
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But the main advantages are above all for patients: the use of robots allows operations to be speeded up, made more precise, less invasive and to lower the risk of infection. The result, the experts explain, is that thanks to robots in the operating room, more operations can be performed, with a lower risk of complications, to the benefit of hospitalization and recovery times, and post-operative pain, which are reduced: “The the patient’s trauma is less – concludes Rottolie – and, consequently, the recovery is quicker”.
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