Kidney Stone Removal Breakthrough Combines Robotic Surgery With New Cooling Technique, Henry Ford’s Vattikuti Urology Institute and Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital Study

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A first-ever technique using ice slush and minimally invasive robotic surgery to remove a particularly large type of kidney stone has been reported by urologists at Henry Ford Hospital. Dubbed RANL, for robotic anatrophic nephrolithotomy, the technique was devised to remove staghorn calculi - large kidney stones with sharp, craggy branches - that can cause disease and sometimes death if left untreated.

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