Mrs. TP - 68 years old, living in Ho Chi Minh City - had headaches, fatigue, and lethargy for many years. Taking medicine helped relieve the pain, but the condition became worse.
According to Dr. Nguyen Hien Nhan, Department of Neurosurgery - Trung Vuong Hospital, Ms. P. came to the clinic with weakness on the left side of her body and poor contact. The patient was found to have a large meningioma, the size of an adult's fist.
Dr. Nhan said that this meningioma was benign, but very large in size and rare. The patient was scheduled for surgery. During the preparation, the doctors discovered that Ms. P. had coronary artery disease and the tumor had many blood vessels feeding it.
After consulting with endovascular interventional surgeons (DSA), the team decided to embolize the blood vessels feeding the tumor to minimize bleeding during surgery for the patient.
The image shows a large tumor in the patient's meninges. Photo: Provided by the hospital
"The tumor removal surgery was successful. The patient recovered 9 days after surgery, was mentally alert, no longer paralyzed, and was able to walk and live normally," Dr. Nhan informed.
Dr. Nhan said that meningiomas are usually benign tumors, accounting for 14-19% of primary tumors in the skull. The highest incidence is usually at the age of 45. Meningiomas in children and adolescents account for about 1.5% of cases (usually from 10-20 years old).
Benign meningiomas usually grow slowly and last for many years, so when patients have a prolonged headache, they are often subjective and only use painkillers. Although not immediately life-threatening, if left for a long time, the tumor will grow larger and the blood vessel system that feeds the tumor will develop more complicatedly, which is very dangerous.
Therefore, Dr. Nhan recommends that anyone with prolonged headaches should go for early screening.
Source
Comment (0)