Boy receives 'revolutionary' robotic surgery in London first 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 received his operation at the Evelina hospital in central London, where consultant paediatric urologist Pankaj Mishra controlled the Versius system through an open console with a screen.
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.
The operation, called a robotic assisted pyeloplasty, was performed using the Versius Surgical Robotic System.
The boy’s mother, Jenny Quinn, said: “Although Rufus was initially nervous about the surgery, he was mainly very excited.
