An 8-centimeter tumor lodged in a woman’s jaw was successfully removed at Villa El Salvador Hospital

A few days ago the case of a successful operation in the Junín region was known when doctors from the Ministry of Health (Sometimes) managed to remove a 20-kilogram, one-meter-tall tumor from a young woman of just 18, demonstrating that medicine continues to advance rapidly day after day and that our surgeons are better trained.

A meter-long, 20-kilogram tumor was successfully removed from a young woman’s abdomen

The Regional Center of the Institute of Neoplastic Diseases was in charge of the operation which lasted between three and four hours. The Ministry of Health (Minsa) indicated that “the tumor covered the entire abdomen like a woman pregnant with twins”.

The operation, which lasted more than three hours, took place in Regional Institute of Neoplasia – IREN Center. The young woman arrived at the specialized health center in the town of Pangoa in the central Selva, hoping that they would save her life.

However, this is not the only success story where medicine and the good management of surgeons show that they are on the front line, since last month the diagnosis of another removal of a tumor in the jaw of a 56-year-old woman was made known. ., who managed to reconstruct his face.

A 20-kilo tumor was removed from her daughter, but she suspected nothing: “We thought she was overweight”

Sonia Ramírez said she took her daughter to the health facility in the presence of abdominal pain. Finally, they informed her that her daughter had a gigantic tumor, which was removed after a three-hour operation.

This case was filed a few days after the end of January and took place in the Villa El Salvador Emergency Hospital (HEVES), where the surgeons had to work for almost 15 hours in this surgery, as it was an 8 centimeter tumor lodged in the jawbone, which caused great complications in the life and health of the woman.

According to the HEVES ENT surgeon, Caesar mirror explained to the Andina agency that for this surgery he opted for the autotransplantation technique, this procedure consists of extracting parts of the patient’s body and, through a process of microsurgery, using them to recover affected areas by a disease.

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He said the tumor the woman had in her facial bones caused her to lose her teeth, causing her a lot of pain.

To reconstruct the affected area, the specialists decided to extract some bone, muscle and skin from the fibula (leg) area, as well as a vein and an artery, and then transplant them into the affected part, joining the veins and arteries. neck and remaining mandible. It was the first such surgery to be performed at the hospital.

“This procedure is very complex, because it requires joining veins and arteries that are only one millimeter in diameter and are sutured with threads one tenth the thickness of a hair, visible only under a microscope” , explained Dr. Espejo.

Villa El Salvador Emergency Hospital.

The person in charge of this surgery stressed that the success of the surgery was possible thanks to the quality of the specialists in surgery, anesthesiology, nursing and technicians who participated in it.

After this major surgical operation which restored confidence to thousands of patients, the operated woman evolved favorably and was discharged. 10 days after the operation continue his physiotherapy and oral rehabilitation (implants or dental prosthesis), with which he will be able to carry out his activities normally. Likewise, the area from which the elements for the autotransplantation were extracted healed well.

Sonia Ramírez, the patient’s mother, said her daughter was referred by Pangoa Hospital.

In the region of Junín, it was learned that doctors from isHealth They successfully performed an operation by removing a 20-kilogram, one-meter-tall tumor from an 18-year-old girl. Doctors said the size of “the tumor covered the entire abdomen, similar to that of a pregnant woman with twins”. After a long process of operation, the health personnel were able to carry out their admirable intervention.

“The giant pelvic abdominal tumor with cystic and solid areas was successfully removed; and he was sent to the pathological studies”, said doctor Danilo Baltazar, sub-specialist in gynecological oncology of the IREN Center.