They remove a brain tumor from a 67-year-old woman at the IMSS hospital in Chiapas

From the editorial

Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday December 8, 2022, p. 18

Experts from the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) in Chiapas removed a brain tumor the size of an apple from a 67-year-old woman. With this intervention Maurilia recovered her health and quality of life. The tumor dependent on the meninges of the brain measured eight centimeters.

The patient suffered constant headaches for three years, which she believed were the product of stress, but over time they increased; She gradually lost strength in her left leg and arm, so in October she went to Hospital General de Zona (HGZ) Number 1 Nueva Frontera, in Tapachula, where she was diagnosed with a right frontal extra-axial tumor suggestive of a meningioma. .

The case was treated by the neurosurgeon Francisco Velázquez Robledo, attached to the health center, who indicated that this type of procedure is regularly performed in third-level hospitals; However, thanks to the fact that the hospital has highly qualified specialists and the necessary infrastructure, it was possible to remove the tumor and restore Maurilia’s quality of life.

We performed various imaging studies, including a tomography and a brain magnetic resonance, which confirmed that the tumor was in the cerebral meninges, significantly invading the primary motor area and the parietal region where the primary sensory area is located on the right side, penetrating the bone and superior sagittal sinus.

Four days after surgery, he is already recovering at home.

Velázquez Robledo, explained that the surgery lasted approximately seven hours, in which a complete resection of the bone was performed, as well as the tumor with the meninges, as well as detachment and resection of the superior sagittal sinus. The specialist stressed that the patient, despite Due to her age and the difficulty of the surgical procedure, she was discharged from the hospital four days after the surgery, and one month later the Neurosurgery service discharged her.