Senior neurosurgeon Shashank Ramdurg performed a surgery on an infant, less than five months old, to remove a brain tumour at the Basaveshwar Teaching and General hospital .
Four-and-a-half-month-old Khushi from Vijayapura district was admitted in the Neurosurgery Department recently with an increased head-size and poor intake.
Ultrasound and an MRI of the brain showed that the infant had a very rare intraventricular tumour with hydrocephalus (case of Choroid plexuspapilloma with hydrocephalus). According to Dr. Ramdurg, choroid plexus papilloma accounts for less than 1 per cent of brain tumours in all age-groups and is more prevalent among children. “They arise from blood vessels of ventricles and secrete cerebrospinal fluid, which are very vascular and also cause hydrocelphalus.”
The surgery was particularly challenging because of the depth of tumour, vascularity and the small age and weight of the child, the surgeons said.
After a three-hour long surgery, Dr. Ramdurg and his team performed the excision of the tumour using a transcortical-transventricular approach.
