Successful surgery for patient with rare brain tumor

On August 27, An Sinh Hospital (HCMC) announced that it had successfully performed surgery on a patient with PXH (35 years old) who had a rare brain tumor that had grown out of place in the skull bone.

The patient had an increasingly large tumor in the right forehead, accompanied by headaches, blurred vision in the right eye, and frequent watering of the eyes. Previously, the patient had visited many places and was diagnosed with a benign skull tumor, with a non-contrast CT scan of the brain.

At An Sinh Hospital, the patient was admitted in a conscious state, with no weakness in the limbs, headache, blurred vision in the right eye, and continuous tearing, without optic nerve paralysis.

According to Master - Doctor Khong Le Minh Tri, Department of Examination, An Sinh Hospital, the results of clinical examination, brain CT scan and brain MRI showed that the tumor developed in the right frontal skull bone, with a reaction of thickening of the meninges in the right frontal region, quite large in size about 8x7cm, invading the right frontal skull bone, spreading to the skull base and right eye socket, causing the patient to have continuous right eye watering.

"Neurosurgeons consulted with imaging doctors, suspecting a meningioma growing in the skull bone. This is a rare brain tumor in the world , accounting for about 13% - 26% of intracranial tumors and about 1% to 2% of meningiomas. Through the gross image when the tumor was surgically removed, the tumor was a hard, thick mass, about 8cm x 7cm x 4cm in size, with a rough surface and infiltration of cells on the inner surface of the skull bone," Master-Doctor Khong Le Minh Tri informed.

At the same time, Master-Doctor Khong Le Minh Tri said that this is a rare clinical case, very difficult to diagnose. After more than 2 hours of surgery, neurosurgeons and anesthesiologists - resuscitators successfully removed almost the entire tumor, and reconstructed the patient's skull. The patient is currently recovering well after surgery and was discharged after 7 days of treatment.

THANH SON

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/phau-thuat-thanh-cong-cho-benh-nhan-mac-u-so-nao-hiem-gap-post810405.html