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The patient’s arm and leg were amputated. (PHOTO)

Neurosurgeons from the Omsk Regional Clinical Hospital helped a woman with a brain tumor. Due to the developing disease, the 63-year-old patient’s arm and leg were already working poorly.

According to the regional Ministry of Health, the woman had been feeling increasing weakness in her limbs for the last three months. Doctors conducted an examination. And the MRI showed a large tumor of the sagittal sinus of the brain. The tumor was pressing on the right parietal lobe.

The sagittal sinus is a large vein, its diameter is about a centimeter. Venous blood from both hemispheres is usually discharged into this channel. Therefore, vessel tumors are very dangerous. After all, along with it, you can remove a segment of one of the main vessels in the brain. There is also a danger of bleeding, and subsequently cerebral ischemia.

Such tumors are called highly vascularized. They either grow into the vessels of the brain or themselves have a good blood supply. And when removing them, it is necessary to preserve the brain vessels as much as possible. Therefore, before such operations, the blood supply to the tumor is carefully examined. Doctors also plan which vessels need to be preserved and which will have to be removed.

The Omsk resident’s tumor was 8×8 cm in size. And it grew with vessels tightly connected to the brain.

In the department of neurosurgery of the OKD, before the operation, angiography of the vessels was done, and the veins that were subject to mandatory preservation were determined. After this, the neoplasm was excised, including the area of ​​the changed sagittal sinus.

An operating microscope helped in this matter. And, of course, the coordinated work of neurosurgeons. They were able to isolate large blood vessels from the tumor and preserve blood circulation in the brain. The neoplasm itself was separated from the hemispheres without damaging the cortex.

As Alexander Kormilets, a neurosurgeon at the Omsk Regional Hospital, explained, every doctor during an operation knows the progress of the process several steps ahead. And, if something unexpected happens, I am ready to respond quickly and constructively. Otherwise, the complex operation cannot be performed.

Thus, the operation described above was performed by neurosurgeon Alexander Kormilets, assistant Andrei Zagatov, anesthesiologist Maxim Plotnikov and operating nurse I. Khlopova.

After the operation, the woman was transferred to a regular ward from intensive care the next day. The postoperative period began. And it’s not easy. We need to overcome cerebral edema. And the brain itself will have to adapt to the rebuilt blood supply.

But things are going well. Within ten days after the operation, the woman felt strength increasing in her arm and leg, which had previously been weakened. Movement was also restored. Ahead lies rehabilitation and physical therapy classes. The main thing is that the doctors preserved the blood supply and the hemispheres of the brain themselves, so the chances of recovery for the Omsk resident are high.