The spine department at Prince Sultan Military Medical City succeeded in performing an operation, for the first time in the Kingdom, to remove a herniated disc in a patient in their forties in the lumbar vertebrae compressing the nerves of the spinal cord using a (three-dimensional phytome) device. This was explained by the head of the spinal oncology unit and head of the medical team, Dr. Abdullah Arab, pointing out that the Vitum device is one of the modern and advanced devices for performing spinal operations and brain and nerve operations, as the device features a high-definition digital camera with digital zoom connected to two screens with (4K) technology This makes the vision clear for the surgeon and the assistant, indicating that the device helps a lot in making the operations appear with better results and that it helps in the operations of cartilage removal and expansion of the nerve channel of the cervical vertebrae.
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