Flushing Hospital Medical Center Celebrates 100th Robotic Surgery

Pictured from L to R: Dr Alejandro Alcaide , Dr  Roberto Cantu Jr. , Nixon Medrick, Dr Sanjeev Rajpal, Dr Frederick Gulmi, Danielle Kronfeld

Pictured from L to R: Dr Alejandro Alcaide , Dr Roberto Cantu Jr. , Nixon Medrick, Dr Sanjeev Rajpal, Dr Frederick Gulmi, Danielle Kronfeld

Flushing Hospital Medical Center celebrates 100 successful robotic surgery cases since adding the da Vinci robot to its team in October 2014. Since its inception surgeons have used robotic technology in a wide variety of procedures with great success. Surgery performed with the assistance of the da Vinci surgical system can offer several benefits to patients such as shorter hospital stays, minimal scarring and less pain.

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