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UW doctors assist with life-saving surgery for Woodland Park gorilla

UW physicians and surgeons were part of the human medical specialist team that joined Woodland Park Zoo’s animal health team last month to perform emergency surgery on 38-year-old Vip, a western lowland gorilla. Read more about the procedure and see video from Q13 FOX. In 2015, Vip underwent a specialized sinus procedure and UWTV’s UW|360 captured it and reported on the ground-breaking procedure.