With an advanced technique, a tumor was removed from a woman in a Buenos Aires hospital

A 30-year-old woman with a tumor at the base of her skull was successfully operated on with a state-of-the-art surgical microscope at the public hospital in the city of Escobar, the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health reported this Friday.

This is the first highly complex surgical operation at that hospital for a skull tumor with a state-of-the-art microscope that allows solving brain and spinal pathologies.

"The microscope allows us to perform all types of highly complex neurosurgical pathologies such as brain tumors, aneurysms and malformations. Investment in public health is very important throughout the province of Buenos Aires, and we as a hospital were no exception: it allowed us to improve processes, infrastructure, medical equipment, supplies, drugs and guarantee access to health for the people of Buenos Aires", explained the director of the "Enrique Erill" hospital, Gaspar Matías Costa.

The technique is called stereomicroscope excision, and it was possible to completely remove the tumor from the patient in a complex surgery that lasted five hours. The patient was discharged 48 hours later.

The central operating rooms of the Buenos Aires hospital where the surgery was carried out have been valued in recent years.

In that hospital, a Recovery Room was set up that has two fully equipped beds, anesthesiology tables, infusion pumps and multiparameter monitors, among other equipment that was acquired within the framework of the comprehensive policy to strengthen the health system.