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Spanish hospital deploys four-armed robot in lung transplant
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Spanish hospital deploys four-armed robot in lung transplant

Surgeons at Vall d’Hebron hospital in Barcelona used a four-arm robotic dubbed “Da Vinci” to chop a small part of the affected person’s pores and skin, fats and muscle to take away the broken lung and insert a brand new one by means of an eight-centimetre incision within the decrease a part of the sternum, simply above the diaphragm.

Published 17.04.2023