HYDERABAD:A new health milestone was achieved in Civil Hospital Hyderabad on the 16th of this month as the oral and maxillofacial surgical team under the supervision of Dr Kashif Ali Channar, Dr Suneel Kumar and Dr Muhamad Shahzad spearheaded a new era in the field of oral cancer surgery when a patient was surgically treated with a cancer ablative surgery and simultaneous reconstruction via radial forearm free flap.
The plastic surgery team was headed by Dr Amna (head of plastic surgery, Bilawal Medical College, Kotri) and Dr Mahesh Kumar (head of plastic surgery LUMHS). Following the excision of the tumor, the patient was declared cancer free intra operatively by the hospital’s histopathology team headed by professor Dr Raheel, another first in history of Hyderabad and upper Sindh.
The operation lasted for almost ten hours and monitored by the anesthesia team led by Dr Ashiq Mehdi. The patient was promptly shifted to surgical ICU where he is stable and under care of SICU staff.