Grandma Zhou, 74 years old this year, could not imagine that a fist-sized tumor would grow in her head, but fortunately she met Chen Zhaozhe, director of the Department of Neurosurgery of Shangrao Fifth Hospital, who removed it with superb surgical skills.
1 month ago, Grandma Liu's ears suddenly could not hear the sound, good and bad, lasted for a month, the family took her to the local hospital for examination, diagnosed as left temporal meningioma, heard that the neurosurgery of Shangrao Five Hospitals brain tumor resection technology is mature, so transferred to the five hospitals for treatment.
After Director Chen Zhaozhe received the consultation, he improved the relevant examinations, and mri showed that the patient did have a meningioma with a size of 6.8cm * 4.2 cm * 6 .8cm in the left front temporal region, about the size of a fist, which seriously compressed the blood vessels and brain nerves, causing hearing impairment. This large-volume brain tumor is very rare, and Director Chen believes that surgery should be performed as soon as possible, and tumor resection is the first choice.
After communicating with the patient's family, it was decided to perform the "left wing point inlet anterior cranial fossa bottom meningioma resection", and on the day of the operation, Director Chen Zhaozhe was the main surgeon, and with the cooperation of the operating room and the anesthesia department, after more than 5 hours, the patient was successfully removed the fist-sized tumor in the brain. After the operation, the patient's vital signs were stable and the recovery was good.
The 66-year-old Aunt Qiu lasted for a month in September this year with a sore left jaw, and in October, the throat was painful and uncomfortable, and it lasted for nearly half a month, and she went to the local hospital for no results, so she entered the fifth hospital of the city to seek further treatment. Director Chen Zhaozhe immediately arranged relevant examinations for him, Aunt Qiu's skull CT and magnetic resonance imaging results showed that there was a tumor with a size of 1.8cm * 1.9 cm at the slope of the occipital bone in his skull, medically known as the occipital slope chordoma, the tumor continues to grow over time, will compress the brain nerves to cause nerve defects, but also erode the skull, if serious, it will lead to intracranial hemorrhage and cerebrospinal fluid leakage, Director Chen Zhaozhe believes that the patient's condition is very dangerous, it is recommended to carry out surgery as soon as possible.
Due to the particularity of the location of the slope tumor, located between the nose and the brainstem, it is particularly difficult to perform traditional craniotomy, and the postoperative recovery is slow, and there are many complications, after communicating with the patient's family, Director Chen Zhaozhe decided to perform a neuroendoscopic slope mass resection for the patient with low risk and small wound. Neuroendoscopic technology is a kind of subtle surgical operation under the optical microscope or magnifying glass, using special microscopic instruments, the neurosurgery endoscopic technology of the five hospitals was carried out earlier, the technology is also more mature, and the German ZEISS microscope introduced in the northeast region of Gansu can improve the accuracy of the operation while reducing intraoperative trauma.
In the coordination of the operating room and the anesthesiology department, the operation was carried out very smoothly, and the slope tumor was completely removed under endoscopy. After the operation, the patient is conscious, has a normal body temperature, and has no obvious neurological dysfunction. (Text/Tulou Dengfeng, Wang Jianfu)