A West Coast first in robotic surgery
Legacy Emanuel marked a milestone when Dr. Eric Dierks performed several oral surgeries with the help of the hospital's new da Vinci Surgical System.
With those surgeries, Emanuel became the first hospital on the West Coast where TORS - or transoral robotic surgery - was performed for the treatment of cancer.
The FDA only recently approved the use of robotic surgical systems in surgeries of the throat. In the past, robotic systems such as da Vinci have been used more frequently for prostate surgeries. more+
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