RG Stone And Super Speciality Hospital » Laparoscopy

Rare Endocrine Tumour Removal Surgery

admin — Mon, 24 May 2010 12:02:57 +0000

One rare case of endocrine tumour has been operated at RG Stone And Super Speciality Hospital on 12-May-2010 by Dr. HS Jolly. An old Female, Karamjeet Kaur, aged 60 yrs, r/o distt. Jallandhar came to the hospital on 10-May-2010 with the complaint of one big mass in upper abdomen. She was suffering from this desease since three years and had constant distress in abdomen with heaviness after meals along with other digestion troubles. Upon clinical examination and investigation, she found to have one tumour arising from head of pancreas. After full preparation she was operated upon by Dr. HS Jolly, Chief Laparoscopic & Endoscopic Surgeon at RG Stone & Super Speciality Hospital.

After opening the abdomen, one mass with big blood vessels surrounding vital structures was found. Tumour of more than 12 cm. X 12 cm. in dimension removed carefully without any damage to surrounding structures.

Patient recovered well after such marathon surgery and has been discharged in healthy condition. At the time of discharge she was not feeling any distress and any other related problems.

Microscopic examination of tumour suggested it as an endocrine tumour from the pancreatic head region and such type of tumour with that big dimension is rare to be found in medical literature.

New Era of Laparoscopy

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:49:59 +0000

Conventionally cholecystectomy is done by laparoscopy by putting four holes over the abdomen. As the surgical field is evolving and technologies are becoming advanced day by day, especially in laparoscopic surgery, now this surgery can be performed by putting single incision over the abdomen.

Recently, this operation has been performed successfully for the very first time in Punjab at RG Stone and Super Speciality Hospital. The patient was a young lady and was distressed with gall stone problem since a long and was planning to do this operation in least possible invasive way. As per the plan, procedure went smoothly by single hole over the abdomen and patient was being discharged the next day. The surgery was a success with single scar, hence cosmetically superior with minimal need of medications and with no chance of pain in long run at other scar sites.

The dawn of new era of laparoscopy has been started and minimal invasive surgery has become more minimal. In the above single port cholecystestomy, state of the art imported instruments were used. After putting single incision over the abdomen; the flexible port was inserted and through the port miniature camera and miniature instruments were used to perform the surgery.