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The procedure took 90 minutes. When Dr Ghouse landed in Hyderabad the following day, he went directly to the ward, examined and discharged her. The surgery, a tele-robotic ureteric reimplantation, is claimed by Dr Ghouse as the world’s first such procedure performed over such a distance. The procedure was part of a series of 26 live surgeries conducted during the 10th Congress of the Chinese Chapter of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association. Five of those operations involved real-time international tele-surgical collaborations, with surgeons in countries including Brazil, Georgia, Greece, Uzbekistan and India remotely participating in procedures spanning urology, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary and…
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