Neurosurgeons from the Emergency Clinical Hospital “Prof. Dr. Nicolae Oblu” from Iasi successfully performed an operation after which a 46-year-old man, diagnosed with a benign orbital tumor, regained his sight.
According to hospital representatives, the 46-year-old man from Iași initially noticed that he was starting to lose the sight in his right eye. He thought he just needed a pair of glasses and went for an eye exam. The doctors decided to carry out further investigations and diagnosed him with a benign orbital tumor.
The operation performed by neurosurgeons from Iasi was complex and lasted several hours. After the intervention, the man regained his sight.
A man with an orbital tumor from Iasi had a complex intervention
“The patient came to our clinic for decreased visual acuity, he could no longer see well with his right eye and the eyeball was coming out of his socket. Following neuroimaging investigations, a tumor was discovered located at the level of the right orbit, behind the eyeball. Orbital tumors are rare tumors, representing less than 1% of all tumors that can occur at the cranio-cerebral level. Most of them are benign tumors, but there are also situations where they can have a degree of malignancy. From an anatomopathological point of view, the surgical indication is total or maximum resection of these tumors, because only in this way can the function of vision and, of course, the correct anatomy of the eyeball at the level of the orbit be restored. In this case, it was a happy case, because we are talking about a benign tumor, a somewhat vascular tumor. A complete resection of this tumor was made and today the patient can resume a normal activity and life, without any problem,” said Lucian Eva, manager of the Emergency Clinical Hospital “Prof. Dr. Nicolae Oblu” Iasi.
According to him, given the low frequency of these types of tumors in the orbit, there are few centers in Romania that can perform this type of surgery.
“The Neurosurgery Hospital in Iasi is one of them. The frequency of these tumors also makes the learning curve relatively difficult. At the hospital level, we operate around 20, maximum 30 tumors per year, due to this low incidence among the population”, added the manager.
Source: www.descopera.ro
