Story by Gloria Montgomery | Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center | 10.24.2019
First approved for use in 2000 as a replacement for laparoscopic procedures, robotic systems like da Vinci have made the technical aspects of minimally invasive surgery easier, as well as less demanding both physically and mentally. Those key attributes have extended robotic-assisted procedures to numerous parts of the anatomy and range from hysterectomies and gall bladder removal to coronary......