China News Service, Shanghai, February 25th (Chen Jing, Cao Xi, Zhu Yaqing) Sacral tumors are rare tumors, and their surgical treatment has always been one of the difficult problems in the medical field.
The reporter visited the Third Affiliated Hospital of Naval Military Medical University on the 25th and learned that multi-disciplinary experts from the Anting Campus of the hospital successfully completed a very difficult surgical resection and reconstruction of a recurrent sacral tumor. Aunt Liu (pseudonym), a 66-year-old patient, finally got a new life.
“My mother had an operation more than 10 years ago, and this time it relapsed.” Aunt Liu’s daughter told reporters. “This recurrence was worse than last time. The doctor suggested we operate, but the risk was too high.”
Professor Wang Zhiwei, director of the Department of Orthopaedics in Anting Campus, told reporters that sacral tumors have a lot of bleeding, deep location, and difficult surgery. The surgical treatment of recurrent sacral tumors is even more difficult. It often requires the cooperation of multiple disciplines in the hospital. Only a high technical level and a strong comprehensive hospital strength can complete this complex operation. “The treatment of this patient involved multiple disciplines. Not only did she have chordoma recurrence, but she also had severe hypertension and osteoporosis. In addition, she also had mild anemia.”
It is reported that Aunt Liu’s operation lasted for nearly 10 hours. Experts and professors from orthopedics, urology, vascular surgery, plastic surgery and anesthesiology worked together. The patient’s condition was stable after surgery and was transferred to the intensive care unit.
Professor Wang Zhiwei introduced that due to the complex anatomical structure of the sacrum and its proximity to major blood vessels and important organs, the intraoperative bleeding was turbulent and the surgical risk was high. It is difficult to achieve a wide margin of resection in the sacrum, so the local recurrence rate after sacral tumor surgery is also high. The expert said: If you feel pain in the sacrococcygeal region, or have neurological symptoms in the lower limbs, or have bowel and bladder dysfunction, you should not only consider lumbar disc herniation, but also visit an orthopaedic specialist in time to rule out sacral tumors. (End)