Chennai, Feb. 24 -- Doctors at the Apollo Speciality Hospitals, have successfully performed a complex minimally invasive endoscopic procedure to remove a large 15 cm laterally spreading adenoma, a type of Polyp in the sigmoid colon of an 80-year-old woman using Advanced Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection.
It is supported by Zoom scope technology, marking the first time this advanced technology has been used for such a, a type of procedure in Tamil Nadu, the team of doctors who performed the surgery, told reporters, addressing a press conference here on Tuesday.
The patient had presented with rectal bleeding and abdominal pain and was diagnosed with a large laterally spreading adenoma in the sigmoid colon, which carried a high risk of malign...