Patients diagnosed with lung cancer may benefit from a minimally invasive totally robotic procedure that requires only a few small incisions instead of a large open chest incision to remove a cancerous growth in the lung.
Surgeons at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago are performing robotic-assisted lung resection surgery using the Intuitive da Vinci Surgical System for patients who would otherwise need traditional thoracotomy through a standard large incision in the chest wall and the separation or cutting of ribs to access the lungs.
"This is a new era in the treatment of lung cancer," said Dr. Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, Lloyd M. Nyhus Professor of Surgery and Chief of the division of minimally invasive, general and robotic surgery at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, who has performed the first robotic lung resection for cancer in 2002. Professor Giulianotti has since performed more than 30 robotic lung resections while in Italy
Surgeons at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago are performing robotic-assisted lung resection surgery using the Intuitive da Vinci Surgical System for patients who would otherwise need traditional thoracotomy through a standard large incision in the chest wall and the separation or cutting of ribs to access the lungs.
"This is a new era in the treatment of lung cancer," said Dr. Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, Lloyd M. Nyhus Professor of Surgery and Chief of the division of minimally invasive, general and robotic surgery at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, who has performed the first robotic lung resection for cancer in 2002. Professor Giulianotti has since performed more than 30 robotic lung resections while in Italy
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