CUPERTINO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/22/09 -- Rush University Medical Center and surgical robotics company Prosurgics announce today the completion of the first colorectal surgeries in the U.S. using the FreeHand® laparoscopic camera controller.Surgeons Dr. Marc Brand and Dr. Theodore Saclarides of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago successfully completed three laparoscopic hemi-colectomies using the laparoscopic camera controller. Although FreeHand is used widely in Europe, and has application in a variety of surgical specialties, these were the first procedures of this type to be performed in the U.S. Dr. Brand operated the FreeHand system during the procedures, which took
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