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AHMEDABAD: In a rare surgery performed at the V S Hospital, a liver tumour weighing approximately 2 kg was removed from a 14-month-old child.
The large tumour occupying two-third of the child's liver was removed including the gall-blader by paediatric surgeons Dr Ashok Shah and Dr N Bhattacharjee in an operation that lasted over four hours.
The child was left with only one-third of the liver tissue, which according to the doctors will grow gradually to cope with the burden of extra work forced on it.
Giving details of the case, Dr. Bhattachrjee said that Jigar Thakore sufferd from a congenital large tumour in the liver that was fortunately benign or non-cancerous in nature.
since the massive tumour had damaged atleast 80 per cent of the liver, the opetaion of massive liver resection was performed despite it being a very complicated one involving a high rate of mortality or morbidity.
Liver tumours in children as a whole are very rare and comprise only 0.5-2 per cent of all tumours in children.
"Going through the world literature, only 140 cases have been reported so far. In that too, those taken up for surgery are rarer", informed Dr. Bhattacharjee.
Since this surgery can result in uncontrolled bleeding from the hepatic vein and inferior venna cava, a large number or patients die on the opetaion table itself. Moreover, if the biliary drainage ducts are accidentally tied, then also the tatients will succumb to liver failure.
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