Hyderabad: Cricket ball-sized lesion removed from woman’s skull

Hyderabad: The neurosurgeons at Medicover Hospital, Hitec City have utilised endoscopy procedure to remove a cricket ball-sized lesion lodged in the skull of a 55-year-old patient Vijaya Lakshmi. The woman was admitted to the hospital with difficulty in walking, seeing things and lack of appetite. Investigations including an MRI revealed that the woman had clival […]

Hyderabad: The neurosurgeons at Medicover Hospital, Hitec City have utilised endoscopy procedure to remove a cricket ball-sized lesion lodged in the skull of a 55-year-old patient Vijaya Lakshmi. The woman was admitted to the hospital with difficulty in walking, seeing things and lack of appetite. Investigations including an MRI revealed that the woman had clival chordoma, a skull-based lesion that was quite critical and needed to be removed, hospital doctors in a press release said.

The doctors decided to go for trans-nasal (through the nose) endoscopic removal of the lesion. Since it was involving major structures like the carotid arteries, the surgeons used the navigation system with an endoscopic approach to remove the tumour. The surgeons managed to remove the tumour successfully enabling the patient to make a quick recovery. The patient’s speech, ability to walk and consume food improved. Doctors said that a delay in removal of the lesion could have led to a fatal brain stroke.

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The removal of the lesion was a complex process and involved specialists from multiple disciplines. Surgeons said that the medical condition clival chordoma was rare and the entire surgery was technically demanding.

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