China News Service, August 25th (Chen Jing, Wang Yihui, Wang Yunjun) The tumor cells "started" from the neck and spread to the left breast. They grew into a huge lumps the size of a basketball, weighing 20 kilograms, breathing, pain, and hoarseness. ...The basic life of the patient is greatly affected.

　　The reporter learned from the Cancer Hospital of Fudan University on the 25th that Professor Ji Qinghai, the chief multidisciplinary expert on head and neck tumors in the hospital, led the team. It took 6 hours to successfully cut this rare and huge malignant tumor completely for the patient and penetrate deep into the throat. The tumor on the face was "swept" clean.

　　It is reported that reports of surgical resection of huge malignant tumors extending from the neck to the chest wall are rare in China.

　　The patient Ms. Jin developed a lump on the left side of her neck in her 20s.

In 2007, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and underwent surgery to remove most of the lesion, but there was still a "remnant force."

At the end of 2020, Ms. Jin discovered that the lump had become larger. In July this year, when she came to the outpatient clinic of Professor Ji Qinghai of Head and Neck Surgery of Fudan University Cancer Hospital for help, the wildly growing tumor had occupied the entire chest wall.

　　Professor Ji Qinghai told reporters on the 25th: "This kind of situation is extremely rare. The patient's condition is more complicated and the operation is extremely difficult." However, after discussion, multidisciplinary experts agreed that only surgery can really solve the problem.

　　During the 6-hour operation, Professor Ji Qinghai first carefully dissected and separated the tumor from the common carotid artery layer by layer, and then carefully “tick off” the tumor from the pharyngeal muscles.

The doctors discovered that the tumor body that has grown for many years has formed many collateral blood vessels in the patient's body. The skin of the chest wall is stretched by the tumor as thin as the wings of a cicada, and the blood vessels on the skin surface crisscross like a spider's web. A little carelessness will cause bleeding. .

With the tacit cooperation of the experts, Professor Ji Qinghai relied on his superb surgical skills to remove the huge malignant tumor with a diameter of 30 cm and a weight of about 20 kg as a whole.

　　Professor Ji Qinghai told reporters that the patient is currently in good condition and was discharged from the hospital today.

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