The painless surgery was done through a small 2cm opening in the abdomen and patient was sent home within 24 hours.
A robot surgeon has removed a tumour weighing 5kg from a 44-year-old woman’s ovaries.
The complicated surgery, conducted at Al Qassimi Hospital for Women and Children in Sharjah, used the Da Vinci Robotic surgical system that performs minimally invasive surgery with advanced set of instruments and a 3D high-definition view of the surgical area.