Extremely rare tumor removed from male patient, with incidence of 1/100,000 people

Da Nang Hospital has just successfully operated on an extremely rare tumor on a male patient.

On October 25, Da Nang Hospital announced that doctors from the Department of Thoracic Surgery had successfully performed surgery on an extremely rare case of right carotid artery tumor, with an incidence rate of 1-2 patients/100,000 people, on a 56-year-old male patient.

Previously, patient D.XL (residing in Son Tra District, Da Nang City) came to Da Nang Hospital for examination with a painful tumor in the right neck area, the tumor throbbed with the heartbeat.

The patient was ordered by the doctors to have an ultrasound, CT scan with contrast in the neck veins and to do paraclinical tests. The results showed a tumor occupying the right neck area measuring 33x37x64 mm, clearly defined, surrounding the right carotid artery, with central blood vessels, and increased vascularity after contrast injection.

The patient was diagnosed with a right carotid tumor with complications of compression of the right carotid artery, and was admitted to the Department of Thoracic Surgery for surgical removal of the tumor.

Specialist Doctor Than Trong Vu, Head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery, who directly operated on the patient, said that the surgery was very difficult because the large tumor had many blood vessels that surrounded the internal and external carotid arteries and the bifurcation of the carotid artery.

Doctors at Da Nang Hospital have just successfully operated on an extremely rare carotid body tumor.

With their experience, the doctors were successful in removing the entire tumor without any complications after 4 hours of surgery.

After surgery, the patient's health was stable, he could eat, talk normally and was discharged from the hospital.

Doctor Vu said that carotid body tumors are a rare type of tumor with an incidence rate of 1-2 patients/100,000 people, accounting for 0.6/100 neck tumors. The nature of the tumor is usually benign, however, about 5-7% of tumors have the potential to be malignant.

"Surgery is the only radical treatment method but it is very difficult, many neurological and vascular complications can occur. At the Department of Thoracic Surgery, this tumor has not been seen in 10 years," said Dr. Vu, and recommended that if the patient feels an abnormally large neck area or a protruding tumor, they should go to a specialized medical facility for timely treatment, avoiding the case of a large tumor making surgery difficult and leading to many complications.

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