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The times of india pune /
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Doctor performs rare surgery in Kolhapur
Kolhapur : Making a minor medical history in the city,
the Kolhapur Oncology Centre (KOC) here has become the first
institute after the Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai to perform a
complex cancer surgery.
The surgery was con-ducted on August 11 on a 38 year old woman
suffering from cancer of the oesophagus.
Director and chief surgeon of the KOC, Suraj Pawar decided to
perform the Minimal Invasive Oncosurgery, which enables the
patient to get discharged after a mere three weeks, after which
the patient can lead a normal life.
While routine surgeries of the oesophagus cancer entail cutting
and opening the chest to approach the infected throat and lymph
nodes, the minimally invasive surgery requires making four-five
small holes of 5 to 10mm in the right side of the chest. From one
of the bigger holes an endoscope with camera is inserted.
Thoracoscopic instruments are passed through the other holes and
the desired operation is performed.
“It is a type of laparoscopic surgery which is widely used in
general surgeries but its use in cancer surgeries is very less as
it requires state of art instruments and skills,” Pawar said.
Pawar, an alumnus of the Tata Memorial Hospital is the first
doctor to do this surgery outside the Tata Memorial Centre.
Speaking on the benefits of the surgery, Pawar said, “As the
cutting and opening of the chest is avoided completely, the blood
loss in minimal. It means, less post-operative pains, faster
recovery of the patient, and reduction of post-surgical
complications.”
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