Entire tongue
reconstruction of a 53-yr man from Ambala Cantt who was suffering from
recurrent tongue cancer has been done at Alchemist Hospital
Panchkula successfully recently.
The patient was
earlier operated for tongue cancer in which half portion of the tongue was
removed but cancer returned. The patient again admitted with recurrent tongue
cancer.
Initially, a total
tongue removal surgery was performed by Dr. Kanwarneet Singh, consultant surgical
oncology at Alchemist Hospital followed by reconstruction of the tongue by
Varun Singla the plastic surgeon.
Talking to media
during a press conference here on Thursday, Dr. Kanwarneet Singh said that total
tongue with lymph nodes has been removed during surgery.
Dr. Varun told
that entire tongue reconstructed with tissues taken from the right thigh
instead from an arm in an eight-hour-long extremely complex surgery in which
part of the thigh is taken with blood vessels and linked to vessels in the neck
for blood supply.
He further
informed that the main target of the reconstruction is to swallow and speech
rather than taste.
“It was
important to make the patient able to swallow after surgery as the spit
accumulated in the mouth could be fatal after its possibility of going in windpipe
during sleep at night.”
The surgery was
very complex as we had to link the blood vessels which are extremely narrow in
size. The operating microscope enabled us to link these blood vessels while
taking equally precaution in three dimension sizes of reconstruct tongue which
over the time reduces in size, maintained Dr Varun.
The
reconstruction was successful and the patient discharged after a week of
hospitalization without any complications, he said.
This surgery is
recognised internationally as the best and ideal surgery for the tongue as it
leaves almost no visible scar and the patient returns to his normal life in the
minimum time.
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