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Scarless Surgery

Posted July 14, 2009 8:53 AM

From BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition:

"After 27 years of pain, this surgery has solved the problem in just a few hours". Estelle Rolinson is one of the latest patients to undergo pioneering "scarless" surgery. She has had part of her kidney removed through her belly button, by a technique known as single incision laparoscopic "key-hole" surgery (SILS). Once the belly button is sewn up, only the tiniest scar remains.

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