November 2006 robotic breakdown

For November I performed 21 robotic operations: 15 robotic prostate removals (dvP), 2 removals of a part of a kidney (robotic simple nephrectomy), 1 kidney (robotic nephrectomy), 2 removals of parts of a prostate for BPH (simple prostatectomy), and 1 reconstruction.

This was the 1st month that I performed 20 robotic surgeries.

The operations of note were:
The removal of a 27 cm kidney tumor. I think this was the record for largest kidney removed by a robotic system. This was for a benign tumor.

2 robotic simple prostatectomies for BPH. One was done with a new intravesical technique and also had many bladder stones removed.
The other was our 2nd largest prostate.

We removed our first prostate over 100 gms in less than 2 hours (122 gms in 100 minutes). I have developed a new technique for these large prostates that is less traumatic on the bladder and quicker than the usual way. We did a record 200 gram prostate in December using the same technique.