Urologists performed a surgery that was a first in the country

They used 3D technology and a device called Urotrainer to operate on a 63-year-old patient with four tumors in the kidney.

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A team of urologists at the Sanatorio de la Mujer in Rosario performed a procedure that was a first in the country, using 3D technology to carry out video-laparoscopic surgery on a man with four tumors in one kidney.

The operation was performed on Thursday, May 27, on a 63-year-old patient from the city of Casilda. To carry it out, the doctors reconstructed the organ beforehand and ran rehearsals of the operation with a system called Urotrainer.

“We did a CT scan and then a 3D reconstruction from the images. We took that to a printed model and used it to simulate operating in a kind of box. It is the first time this has been done in the country,” explains Rodrigo Martínez Mansur, one of the doctors in charge, to A24.com.

According to Martínez Mansur, this technique made it possible, among other things, to recreate the arteries and veins. “That way, you know where to block the blood supply so that during surgery the patient loses less blood, needs fewer transfusions, and finishes sooner,” he added.

According to the doctor, the incision was only four centimeters to remove all the tumors.

And the remarkable part, he said, is that “if this procedure had not been proposed, it would have ended in dialysis.”