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"The layman's term is 'keyhole' surgery," said Dr. Anvari, describing where the surgeon operates through a small incision via a long slender tube (usually equipped with miniature video camera) that allows him to see and work inside the body.
Such "minimally invasive" surgery causes less trauma to the patient, allowing faster healing and lowering the probability of post-operative infection.
Recently, Dr. Anvari broke new ground when he used a specially configured laparoscopic robot, which measured and then precisely transmitted the movements of his hands and fingers, to operate on a patient some 400 kilometers away, in North Bay, Ontario.
Performed on 28 February 2003, it was the world's first hospital-to-hospital operation of this kind.
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