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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Daniel Keane

Boy receives 'revolutionary' robotic surgery in London first

Rufus Quinn underwent the operation at Evelina children’s hospital - (Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust)

A seven-year-old boy has become the first child in London to successfully undergo an operation using a “revolutionary” surgical robotic system as part of a trial.

Rufus Quinn, from south London, had complex surgery to correct a blockage at the ureteropelvic junction, the space between the kidney and the tube that drains urine into the bladder.

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