Hyderabad: Surgeons from Yashoda remove large tumour in a 69-year-old woman
Surgeons at Yashoda Hospitals on Thursday announced that they have successfully operated on a 69 year-old-woman who had a big tumour in the right side of her chest and was suffering from progressive difficulty in breathing for the last one year, a press release said.
The woman underwent a series of tests, which revealed that she had rare tumour arising from the lining of the chest wall. The tumour was pushing the heart to the opposite side, compressing the right lung and the diaphragm and causing significant chest pain and fluid accumulation in her right chest, doctors said.
CT chest - 18 x 15 cm pleural based tumour pushing the heart to the opposite side , compressing the right lung lower lobe and the diaphragm , moderate pleural effusion .
Patient was taken up for surgery inspite of poor pulmonary function ( FEV1 - 40% , FVC - 45% ) , heart function was normal .
Intraoperatively - solid well encapsulated Tr 15 x 15 cm with attachment to the diaphragm and right lower lobe , excised with a sleeve of right lower lobe and diaphragm for adequate margins and diaphragm reconstructed
Post operative recovery was uneventful with discharge on 4th day .
Moral of the story :
1. Chest cavity is quite capacious enough to allow tumours to grow to massive sizes , Do not ignore PERSISTENT symptoms however trivial , a routine Chest x ray picks up most of these tumours , so get urself evaluated.
2. Some tumours grow to massive sizes but can be removed safely if the patient is evaluated and assessed properly before surgery . Good scientific assessment dictates operability not emotional decisions.
3. Early surgery as soon as the tumour is detected usually means better recovery and lesser risks involved during surgery .
Denying surgery and carrying the tumour around doesn't make u more safe ..tumour simply doesn't stop growing and risks multiply with increasing size.
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