Robotic surgeons remove huge pancreatic tumour

Doctors at the Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS Hospitals) performed a robotic surgery to remove a tumour from a 27-year-old female’s pancreas. The 6x7 cms size Solid Pseudopapillary Epithelial Neoplasm (SPEN) tumourwas believed to be the largest to date to be removed using robotic surgery procedure in India. The procedure was accomplished by Dr Madhu Devarasetty, consultant surgical oncologist and robotic surgeon and his team.

Elaborating about the procedure, DrDevarasetty said, “The surgery was accomplished with Si Davinci system and specimen extracted through a small 6 cms incision that leaves a tiny and perishable scar on the body. The procedure lasted for five hours and 30 minutes and the patient was discharged on the seventh day.”

“This solid pseudopapillary tumour consists of solid sheets of cells that are focally dyscohesive. In these cases, the necrosis is usually present, and as the cell death occurs distant from blood vessels; it leads to the formation of pseudopapillae,” he said.

Commenting on the success, DrDevarasetty, said, “In coming days we want to shift these patients directly to room without ICU stay. Biopsy reports are better than that of open surgery.”

The exactitude surgery performed using most advanced technology, resulted in speedy recovery of the patient. The young patient, a working woman from Warangal, Telangana State, was discharged from the hospital on the seventh day of the surgery, and has started attending to her work too.