Sanxiang Metropolis Daily, December 13 (All-media reporter Li Qi, correspondent Peng Lu, Chen Shuai) "Thanks to the wonderful hands and benevolence of the medical staff, who saved our daughter's life! Today, at Hunan Provincial Cancer Hospital, Mr. Zhang from Dongguan, Guangdong Province, thanked the neurosurgery medical team of the hospital.
At the end of November, Mr. Zhang's 9-year-old daughter Mu Mu (pseudonym) suddenly developed symptoms such as headache, nausea, and unsteadiness in walking. Over the past few days, such symptoms have continued to worsen, and the head magnetic resonance imaging examination of the local hospital shows a mass lesion of the cerebellar worm, considering malignant medulloblastoma.
As the disease progressed, Mu mu's headache worsened significantly, and ejective vomiting appeared. In order to seek a glimmer of life for his daughter, Mr. Zhang and his wife took their daughter to many hospitals for treatment, and finally came to the Neurosurgery Department of Hunan Provincial Cancer Hospital for treatment.
Professor Yang Jie and his team in the department immediately arranged hospitalization and preoperative examination for Mu Mu, and issued a critical illness notice to his parents, and informed the parents of the children of the relevant surgical matters and risks. The patient's parents were in a nervous mood and insisted on surgery after consultation. Professor Yang Jie led the medical team to work overtime overnight to discuss and analyze the condition, formulate a detailed surgical plan and postoperative measures for him, and decided to perform craniotomy + cerebellar worm mass lesion resection in the emergency department the next day.
Subsequently, with the chief physician Yang Jie as the chief surgeon and the assistance of the deputy chief physicians Chen Shuai and Zhang Kai, the surgical team successfully performed craniotomy for the child and completely removed the tumor. From reception to completion of the operation, the medical team successfully pulled the child back from the brink of life and death in 24 hours.
After careful treatment during the hospitalization, the child's body gradually recovered, and her young face returned to the smile of the past. "If we hadn't come here for surgery at that time, we probably wouldn't have seen our daughter again, thanks to the medical staff at the hospital," said Mr. Zhang's wife with tears in her eyes, recalling the dangerous situation at that time.
Professor Yang Jie introduced that the child's intraoperative rapid pathology showed malignant tumors of cerebellar worms, and follow-up should also be genetically tested as soon as possible and undergo chemoradiation and chemotherapy.
Malignant brain tumors are diseases that seriously endanger human life. In children, brain tumors are the second leading cause of cancer death, after leukemia. Professor Yang Jie reminded that medulloblastoma is common in children's cerebellar worms, which is one of the brain tumors with the highest degree of malignancy in the skull, which is mainly manifested as extremely rapid growth, difficult to remove all by surgery, and the risk of disseminated implantation. Medulloblastoma occurs mainly in children under 14 years of age, has an average onset of about 4 months, and is characterized by increased intracranial pressure (headache, nausea, vomiting) and cerebellar symptoms (walking instability). When the child has the above symptoms, parents should be vigilant, go to the hospital for examination in time, and carry out surgical treatment in time after diagnosis, and be supplemented by radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other measures after surgery.