Doctors at UP Hospital perform microvascular surgery for tongue reconstruction on 56-year-old patient
Lucknow: For the first time, doctors at the Kalyan Singh Super Speciality Cancer Institute performed a microvascular surgery for tongue reconstruction with a free radial artery forearm flap.
Resection of the primary tumour was done by Dr Indu Shukla, Assistant Professor, ENT and plastic and reconstructive surgery was performed by Dr Mukta Verma, Assistant Professor, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
A 56-year-old male patient had come with complaints of non-healing ulcers and pain at the left lateral border of the tongue for about four months.
His histopathology came out to be moderately differentiated Squamous cell carcinoma and he was diagnosed as a case of cancer tongue.
He was operated on April 27. The tongue was reconstructed with the help of a free radial artery forearm flap (microvascular technique). The patient is a known case of diabetes mellitus type 2 and he is also suffering from chronic liver disease.
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