RARE SKULL BASE TUMOUR OPERATED AT IVY
HOSPITAL VIA OSTEOPLASTIC MAXILLOTOMY APPROACH
Neuro
surgical procedures are one of the most technically demanding and complex
surgical procedures . For most of the
patients under going a neurosurgical procedure is equivalent of having a second
life . However with latest advancement in surgical field mortality and
morbidity following neurosurgical procedure have declined significantly. As neurosurgical procedures are rapidly
getting refined tumours and areas of brain previously thought inaccessible or
in operable are being rapidly approached with excellent results. Skull base
tumours have been always approached with
caution because of technical difficulty in approaching such tumours and their
proximity to vital structures of brain.
A rare skull base tumour was recently
operated at IVY hospital by Senior Neurosurgeon
Dr Vineet Saggar . Complete tumour removal was achieved and patient was
sucessfuly discharged within few days . He was ably supported by excellent
plastic surgery team headed by Dr Rahul Goyal
which played huge role in minimizing scarring to facial region as
approach to tumor of skull base required a facial incision.
A 28 year old male presented to Dr Vineet
Saggar with complaints of lossof vision in right eye and swelling around
right eye. His MRI was already done and
it revealed large skull base tumour behind face and nose extending to other
side . A nasal endoscopic bipopsy was taken at some other hospital had revealed
a benign ( non cancerous) tumour of nerves (schwannoma). He had shown to many
private and government hospitals but was reffered to AIIMS as they told him it
was difficult to approach this tumour and it may not be possible to remove it
completely. How ever this tumour was completely removed at IVY Hospital by Dr
Vineet Saggar via OSTEOPLASTIC MAXILLOTOMY a rare and technically
demanding Skull base approach . Patient was
discharged 6 days after surgery.
PRE OPERATIVE CT SCAN SHOWING LARGE TUMOUR BEHIND FACE AND
NOSE UPTO SKULL BASE
POST OERATIVE PICTURE OF THE SAME PATIENT BEFORE DISCHARGE
POST OPERATIVE SCAN OF PATIENT SHOWING COMPLETE TUMOUR REMOVAL
Dr Vineet Saggar is senior consultant Nuro and
spinal surgery at IVY HOSPITAL . He is specially trained in skull base and
Aneurysm surgeries and complex spinal surgeries
