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Why did telesurgery not become widely popular after the Lindbergh Operation?
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Despite the success of the 2001 Lindbergh Operationāa remote cholecystectomy performed by surgeons in New York on a patient in Franceātelesurgery did not achieve widespread popularity. A primary factor hindering its adoption was the presence of time delays between the control end and the operating end, which posed significant challenges for real-time surgical precision.1