European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes july 1985 new York times illustrations Waist joint taxis shoulder joint taxis wrist rotation Yaxis robotic Arm assists in a brain operation computer top opposite Page selects optimal path for surgery and directs robot by Sandra Blakeslee new York times for the first doctors have used a computerized robotic Arm to help with surgery on the human in three experimental operations on the robot device calculated the angles and held and directed a surgical Drill and Biopsy Needle while the doctors applied the pressure on the instruments to penetrate the Skull and the doctors the robotic Arm is faster and far less invasive than current surgical said the devices in Yik san director of research in the radiology depart ment at the Long Beach memorial medical where the recent operations were said the robotic arms great accuracy eliminates the need for general reduces trauma to the brain and allows patients to go Home the Day after brain surgery instead of a week or More other medical researchers agreed that the marriage of robotics and Medicine has Many Adan including greater Speed and accuracy in but it Doest yet replace the actual work of the which requires expert decision making and years of cautioned John an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of California at los in terms of what medical robots might do on their own in the Frazee the Long Beach device is not anywhere close to what people dream but you have to Start Patrick a consultant in neurosurgery at the Mayo clinic in said i applaud what they Are we need More new ideas in euro As it becomes More and More necessary to do closer and closer tolerance work in the robotics can help us achieve More precise three dimensional control in he Kwoh said the robotic Arm can locate Points in the brain to within one two thousandths of an thus far the robotic Arm has been used to help surgeons remove tissue samples from suspected brain to mors that would have been difficult to reach by conventional in the Kwoh it May be used to Drain implant radioactive pellets directly onto to repair blood guide laser beams to or to help orthopaedic surgeons repair ruptured torn ligaments and last doctors used the robotic Arm to take a tissue Sample from deep within the brain of a 77yearold a computerized Axial tomography cat scan which shows slices of brain tissue on a television indicated there was something abnormal in her right occipital the area toward the Back of the Skull on the right it could have been a tumor or an George Ceverha said both show up As a fuzzy Blob on the cat it was decided to perform a Biopsy on the area to see what was the abnormal area was about inches in Side her Ceverha making the woman an Ideal candidate for robot assisted if a tumor or abscess is near the surface of the surgeons can get to the area but every time a surgeon probes deeper into the passing by blood vessels and through critical anatomical there is increased danger of impaired motor control or the less tissue the better off the patient Ceverha any time we reduce the size of the we Cut Down on postoperative complications such As swelling of the before the Ceverha he explained to robot Arm assists in 3 brain operations