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Now available
at Monmouth: state-of-the-art treatments that help people
get back to the business of living
Not long ago,
taking out a cancerous kidney meant major surgery with a 10- to 20-inch abdominal
incision and, often, removal of the patient's 12th rib. That's a thing of the
past at Monmouth Medical Center, the first hospital in central New Jersey to offer
a minimally invasive alternative that's highly effective and far easier on the
patient. Introduced at Monmouth by urologist
Y. Samuel Litvin, M.D., and surgeon Frank J. Borao, M.D., director of Monmouth's
Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, hand-assisted laparoscopicnephrectomy allows
surgeons to remove the kidney through s three-inch incision --- an opening just
large enough to allow a surgeon's hand to manipulate the diseased organ. "The
procedure represents a real change in the approach to renal carcinomas,"
Dr. Litvin says. "Manipulating the kidney by hand gives us the tactile information
and depth perception that are missing with the standard procedures."
To find out more about
this treatment, call 732-870-5500.
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