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Telescope surgery to remove tumour
DOCTORS AT Noble Hospital removed a seven-inch tumour successfully through the nasal cavity using the telescope method of surgery recently.
DOCTORS AT Noble Hospital removed a seven-inch tumour successfully through the nasal cavity using the telescope method of surgery recently.
According to hospital director Dr Mukesh Jain, this was the first case where a tumour so large had been removed using this method thus saving the patient from undergoing an incision of the skull.
The patient, 62-year-old Rajendra Dubey of Sudama Nagar, came to know about the tumour 10 years ago. The tumour situated in the lower portion of the brain in the area known as spenynde had effected his eye sight and six years ago he completely lost vision in the right eye and was beginning to lose vision in the left eye.
He could only make out the difference between light and darkness and the tumour, increasing in size over the years, had blocked his nasal cavity making respiration difficult.
After consulting several doctors, who asked him to go to Mumbai, he came upon ENT specialist Dr Navneet Jain who got a CT scan of his head and advised him on the risks involved in the surgery.
Dubey gave his consent for the same after which a three-hour operation was performed with the assistance of neurosurgeon Dr Deepak Kulkarni and anaesthetist Dr Rajendra Chouhan. Jain said that the tumour was a mycosil and there was no mention of such a large tumour in medical literature or journals.
Dubey is regaining sight in his left eye and the recurrent complaints of headache and dizziness have disappeared.
