The first time to use the liver cancer surgery robot in Vietnam

A liver cancer patient was surgically removed by the doctors of the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for the complete removal of 2 left lobe with the support of the latest generation robot.

This is also the first application of robots for liver surgery for adults in Vietnam.

The patient, Mr. CMT (59 years old, residing in Long An province), was found to have a tumor in his left liver during a periodic health check.

Suspecting that this is a progressive cancer, doctors at the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Population Control have ordered a blood test to look for biomarkers, taking MS-CT in the abdominal area with contrast to assess the hurt.

The results showed that the patient had a 6cm liver tumor in the lobe segment II and III, the cancer had not metastasized.

Doctors of the Department of Hepatology performed surgery to completely cut the lobe of liver lobe II, III for patients.(Photo: Phuong Vy / TTXVN).

'For non-metastatic liver cancer, radical surgery is the most effective treatment. After talking to patients' family members, doctors decided to choose a robot surgery to both cut the liver lobes with cancer cells at the same time and minimize the risk of liver damage, especially is damage to the portal vein, leading to the risk of massive bleeding, life-threatening illness for patients' , Dr. Vo Van Hung, Deputy Head of the Department of Foreign Medicine, Ho Chi Minh City's Popular Hospital Chi Minh said.

On July 27, the surgery was successfully carried out, completely cutting the liver lobe II and III mitosis.

The use of surgical robots allows the doctor to clearly observe the anatomical structure of organs through a 3D screen, HD standard with a magnification of 12 times.

Robotic arms perform flexible manipulation of tissue, expressing a surgical field clearly, subtly dissecting, securely cutting each liver lobe and liver blood vessels.

Thus, the tumor has just been thoroughly removed while minimizing the remaining liver lesions, maintaining liver function after surgery for patients.

Besides, thanks to the minimally invasive ability, the application of robot surgery causes less pain, reduces blood loss, reduces hospital stay, reduces surgical complications such as infection, inflammation .

After 1 week of surgery, the patient went on his own, the activity returned to normal and was discharged.

Robotic surgery is considered a new high-tech technology of the foreign surgery industry in the world today and has been implemented by Ho Chi Minh City People's Hospital since the end of 2016, on pathologies such as prostate cancer. colon, chest, heart, lung, stomach, kidney surgery.

Until now, the hospital has applied to surgery for liver cancer and in the future will perform surgery in other parts of the human body.