A Rashid Hospital medical team removes a tumor from a patient's brain in 90 minutes

A medical team at Rashid Hospital in Dubai eradicated a tumor from a patient’s brain without any side complications, using the most modern “surgical navigation” device in the surgery that lasted 90 minutes, where at the beginning of the operation, the device performed tests without anesthetizing the patient.

The head of the team, head of the neurosurgery department at the hospital, Dr. Abdullah Qassem, told «Emirates Today»: «The tumor location has been precisely determined, through the surgical navigation device, so that the patient is in a state of awareness and alertness, to ensure the safety of his ability to speak and respond in a way Clear to doctors' questions, and then subject him to full anesthesia to complete the surgery, and remove the tumor safely.

He pointed out that «the patient (Arab - 47 years old) continued to suffer from severe headaches for three consecutive weeks, without any response to headache medication, which led him to seek refuge in Rashid Hospital, and by examining it on the surface it was decided to conduct a CT scan on the head, to ensure his safety.

He added: "The rays showed the presence of a non-benign tumor on the left side of the brain, an average size in the area of ​​four centimeters, which was affecting the movement of the face and the ability to speak, so magnetic resonance rays were performed to study the function of speech in the brain more accurately, and determine how close the tumor is to it, Where the rays indicated that the patient's speech center was concentrated on the right side, with a small part of it near the tumor site.

Surgical Navigation device

The head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Rashid Hospital, Dr. Abdullah Qasim, revealed that the hospital introduced this year the "surgical navigation" device to perform brain, nerve and spine surgeries, to raise the rates of operation success, to reach 97%, and the time and effort are shortened, and it matches the rays that It is imaged in the patient before the operation, which enables the doctor to accurately locate the tumor.