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Nigerian hospitals collaborate to perform tele-robotic surgery

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Premium Times · Sub-Saharan Africa

The procedure was a telesurgery-assisted, robot-assisted right radical nephrectomy performed to remove a kidney affected by a cancerous tumour. The post Nigerian hospitals collaborate to perform tele-robotic surgery appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

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