GITAM DENTAL COLLEGE DOCTORS OPERATE COMPLEX LESION FROM ORAL CAVITY OF A CHILD

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GITAM DENTAL COLLEGE DOCTORS OPERATE COMPLEX LESION FROM ORAL CAVITY OF A CHILD

Sunday, 07 May 2023 | HEALTH PIONEER

Doctors at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of GITAM Dental College and Hospital, Visakhapatnam, have carried out the successful excision of a huge lesion from the oral cavity of an 11-year-old boy.

There was a thin membrane separating the lesion from the lower part of the patient’s eye. Not only was the surgery costly, but it was also difficult to attempt. The possibility of accidentally fracturing the patient’s upper jaw during the procedure had to be taken into account, as well as the likelihood of loss of vision or bleeding into the eye, said Dr Satya Bhushan, the Head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

"We opted for an intra-oral procedure, which is a cosmetic approach to removing the lesion from inside the mouth, rather than an extra-oral procedure, which would leave a scar on the face. Although it is difficult to get access through the intraoral approach, this decision was taken keeping the age of the patient in mind," Dr Siva Kalyan elaborated.

The initial diagnosis of the lesion was done through a procedure called Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) which identified the Central Giant Cell Granuloma (lesion). After the surgical excision of the lesion by the doctors, the pathological and microscopic examination of the growth of tissue showed that it was a schwannoma, a rare tumour of the nervous system.

Post-surgery, the patient was briefly admitted to the ICU. The young boy was fit for discharge just four days after the procedure was carried out. His recovery has been smooth.

;;The team of operating doctors also included post-graduate students Dr Sindhuja,  Dr Raghu Ram and Dr Harshini.

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