If your doctor recommends surgery to treat a colorectal condition, you may be a candidate for minimally invasive da Vinci Surgery. Using state-of-the-art technology, the da Vinci System enables doctors to perform delicate and complex operations through a few tiny incisions with breakthrough vision, precision, dexterity and control. da Vinci Surgery is used to treat such colorectal conditions as: colon cancer, rectal cancer, diverticulitis, and inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease). Surgery to remove all or part of the colon is known as a colectomy. Rectal cancer surgery is known as a low anterior resection. da Vinci offers patients facing colon surgery (right, left or sigmoid colectomy) such potential benefits as:

• Low blood loss
• Quicker return to bowel function
• Quicker return to diet
• Short hospital stay

da Vinci offers patients facing rectal cancer surgery (low anterior resection and APR) such potential benefits as:

• Excellent clinical outcomes for cancer control
• Quick return of bowel function
• Fast return to diet
• Less blood loss
• Shorter hospital stay
• Fast recovery time