Israeli doctor uses tiny, robot ‘hands’ to untrap ureter – no blood loss – Dr. Shay Golan, head of the Urologic Oncology Service at Beilinson Hospital, decided to try something new and, for the first time in Israel, a robot performed the surgery in 50 minutes. | The Jerusalem Post

A doctor at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus, Petah Tikva, has used – for the first time in Israel – a da Vinci robot to perform the complex surgery of untrapping a man’s ureter from behind his vena cava – the largest vein in the body which carries blood to the heart from other areas.