Sewell, an assistant professor of radiology, said all three surgeries were successful. The most obvious one is that the surgeon can instantly detect whether all of a cancerous growth is being destroyed. Dr. Patrick Sewell, performing the world's first MRI renal cryosurgeries at The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, consults the monitor of the interventional MRI while inserting a CryoHit probe into a kidney cancer patient. MRI provides video images of internal body tissue by using a magnetic field and radio waves to detect atoms within the body. Medical Center patients are released as early as a day after the procedure.
Recovery time is a few days at home.
Dr. Bruce Shingleton, Medical Center assistant professor of urology, assisted in Guice's surgery. He pointed out that the recovery time is four to six weeks for conventional surgery to remove a kidney and about half that time for laparoscopic surgery that does not involve this interventional MRI procedure. The University of Mississippi. All rights reserved.