Saudi Medical team uses microcoil technology in tumor excision

Riyadh, January 24, SPA -- A team of Saudi specialist surgeons at the
King Khalid Hospital, King Saud University has succeeded in the
excision of an infected part of the lung of a patient by using
microcell technology.

The medical team was headed by Assistant Professor, Dr
Sami Nassar of Faculty of Medicine, KSU, King Khalid Hospital with
participation of thoracic surgery consultant Dr Waseem Hajjar,
Interventional Radiologist Turki Al-Fehaid and anaesthetist, Dr.
Ahmed Althelaj.

Dr. Musa'ed Mohamed Al Salman, the Dean of the Faculty
of Medicine and the supervisor of the university hospitals, expressed
his deep happiness over this achievement of thoracic surgery unit at
King Khalid University, which emphasizes the role of the Faculty of
Medicine and university hospitals to highlight the distinctive roles
of Saudi doctors at various levels and in all specialization.

Dr. Sami Al-Nassar further explained the stages of
treatment, saying that the patient was a thirty-year-old who suffered
from a small tumor in the right lung recorded by Computed tomography
(CT).

The whole operation was conducted in two phases: the identification
of the place of the injured part of the lung by using CT. and the
transfer the patient to the operating room for the excision of the
infected part of the lung by using endoscopic surgery. He noted that
the recent technology helps the eradication of a sample of the lung
without the need for a large part of the surgery, adding that it
helps to avoid the eradication of a large part of the lung which may
result in complications that affect lung functions.

Dr. Nassar further said that the thoracic
surgery unit at King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University
is considered the second center in the world after Canada, which
carries out such operations.
--SPA
1515 LOCAL TIME GMT