(Providence Business News) — With the precision of slender robotic tools, Dr. Subhashini Ayloo can look inside someone’s abdomen with three-dimensional accuracy. A small incision can be all she needs for major surgery. A specialist in liver transplantation and resection – the cutting and removal of diseased or damaged liver tissue – she joined Brown…
Liver Cancer
A Dramatic Difference: Dr. Ayloo’s Patient First in RI to Undergo Robot-Assisted Procedure for Liver Cancer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — When Kenneth Ronan first underwent surgery for colorectal cancer in December, he was in the hospital for six days and nights recovering. During that surgery, doctors found cancer had spread to Ken’s liver. Typically, removing that tumor would have required more open surgery, another large scar, and another long recovery. However, Ronan,…
