Supreme Court docket Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photograph By ASSOCIATED PRESS 07/29/2020 09:14 PM EDT Justice Rut
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has undergone a nonsurgical medical process in New York Metropolis and expects to be launched from a hospital there by the top of the week, the Supreme Court docket stated Wednesday night time.
The courtroom stated in an announcement that the 87-year-old Ginsburg underwent a minimally invasive process to “revise a bile duct stent” at Memorial Sloan Kettering Most cancers Middle. The stent had initially been positioned final August, when Ginsburg was handled for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas.
The assertion stated that, in keeping with Ginsburg’s medical doctors, “stent revisions are frequent occurrences and the process, carried out utilizing endoscopy and medical imaging steering, was achieved to attenuate the chance of future an infection.”