First Laparoscopic Liver Surgery
Published by Jon Mikel Iñarritu August 10th, 2006 in News Tags: laparoscopic, liver cancer, liver surgery, mark thomas, mexico city, pediatric surgeon.(via)
The first laparoscopic liver surgery in a child, was performed in Mexico.
Mark Thomas, a pediatric surgeon performed the world’s first laparoscopic liver surgery in a pediatric patient. The procedure was on May 24 at the National Medical Center, La Raza in Mexico City. The patient is 2 years old and has liver cancer, on the postop the patient is doing well.
By now, there aren’t published reports of liver resection in pediatric patients with cancer.
Thomas said: “Only a handful of centers in the world perform the number of specialized laparoscopic liver surgeries that we do in Cincinnati”
Dr. Jon Mikel Iñarritu
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Excellent!
Left lobe or right?
Interesting piece. Do you have a link to the original feed. I have been performing laparoscopic surgery as a urologist for 9 years since starting training, but have switched mostly to robotics the last 2. I used to do my partial nephrectomies (removing part of the kidney) laparoscopically but do it all robotically now.
I would think in experienced hands, this operation done robotically would be better.
Dr Savatta
www.roboticsurgeryblog.com
thank you for the welcome. nice site you have. i recently entered the medical field myself, as a medical assistant, although currently i am working the front office if an infectious disease clinic. still, i really like the medical field.
i will be back, you can be sure.
kïrstin