Four-year-old operated on rare tumour cancer of liver

Doctors from Wockhardt Hospital, Mira Road conducts rare feat to save the boy

Jastik, a four-year-old boy from Silvassa, suffering from rare tumour cancer of liver, Hepatoblastoma, was recently cured of the disease. He had poor weight gain with fever and jaundice. Dr Lalit Verma, Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatologist in Wockhardt Hospital, Mira Road found that there was significant abdominal distension with a mass suspecting it to be a tumour. By using clinical judgement, diagnostic tool like CT scan and blood markers, Dr Verma diagnosed this large liver mass as ‘Hepatoblastoma.’

Dr Akansha, paediatric oncologist, came on board and decided to start patient on chemotherapy having six cycles. Once the cycles were over, a repeat CT scan was done which showed significant reduction in tumour size.

At this point, Dr Krutarth (adult onco-surgeon) and Dr Kant (Pediatric onco-surgeon) were involved for the excision of tumor mass. The child was taken up as a high risk case under balanced general anesthesia along with epidural analgesia and invasive pressure monitoring. Intra operative, medicines which are safe for liver cases were given and blood loss was replaced with blood and blood factors. The child was shifted to the paediatric ICU where he was managed by Dr Rushil.