The neurosurgery department of SSG Hospital and Baroda Medical College achieved a “rare feat” by successfully operating a angiomyxofibromatous tumour from the brain in a 12-year-old girl — the first-of-its-kind case to be reported in the world.
Doctors at SSG hospital on Friday announced that the case had been scrutinised and included in the Asian Journal of Neurosurgery as being the first in the world of angiomyxofibromatous tumours found in the posterior fossa of the brain.
Neurosurgeon Dr Parth Modi told , “The surgery was performed in April 2024. Thereafter, the case study was sent to the Asian Journal of Neurology. The peer review journal was in process. The case was being scrutinised and some questions were also raised and satisfactorily answered. It was the first case of angiomyxofibromatous tumour found in the posterior fossa. Usually, the theory is that paediatric tumours occur due to developmental anomalies but we cannot conclusively cite a cause for the same…”
The team of neurosurgeons at SSGH included Dr Amey Patankar, Dr Parth Modi, Dr Ankit Shah and Dr Vinay Rohra after the patient presented with complaints of headache, dizziness and blurring vision for three months with insidious onset and which was progressive in nature. “The patient had no significant past medical history. Physical examination did not show any other neurological deficits…” the journal stated.
A release from SSG Hospital said, “This…is a soft-tissue tumour commonly occurring in genital region of adult females… This tumour has been found for the first time in this part of the brain. This rare occurrence has been published by the prestigious Asian Journal of Neurosurgery.”
Dr Modi said that the patient, a resident of Vadodara, has returned to normal life since the surgery and is attending a regular school in the city.
