Successfully performed in the Armed Forces Hospital in the South, a rare surgery for an elderly person in the 90''s, after a cancerous tumor was removed in the third, fourth and fifth thoracic vertebrae and the patient had come to the emergency department due to back pain with inability to walk as a result of weakness in the lower limbs . The magnetic resonance imaging and the initial medical examinations conducted for the patient showed that he was suffering from severe pressure on the spinal cord, which led to the presence of semi-paraplegia for him, and immediately he was admitted to the hospital and had an urgent operation that took three hours to remove the tumor, and those symptoms disappeared and the patient regained movement And walking again without any complications during or after the operation despite his old age, and he left the hospital after reassurance of his health and recovery, and the patient had a referral to the Oncology Center at the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh for radiotherapy.
Dr. Khaled Al-Asiri, consultant orthopedic and spine surgeon at the hospital who performed the operation, stated that the case is considered one of the medical cases and dangerous and critical surgeries due to the presence of the tumor in a sensitive site of the spinal cord in addition to the large size of the tumor compressing the spinal cord and the neural canal has been expanded from Back, removing the tumor from the thoracic side, liberating the spinal cord, and adding that the speed of surgical intervention in such cases is very necessary, and this is what happened to the patient after God’s grace to save him from his paraplegia.
Dr. Al-Asiri appreciated the efforts of the medical team involved with him, especially Dr. Ashraf Hazem, an anesthesia consultant, who had an effective role in stabilizing the patient''s condition during the operation due to his old age and the seriousness of surgeries at such a particular age.
