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Meyer Hospital removes benign brain tumour through five-year-old’s nose
Doctors at Meyer Children’s Hospital in Florence removed a brain tumour from a five-year-old boy using minimally invasive surgery through his nose.
The tumour was a craniopharyngioma, a benign growth that can return if it is not fully removed.
Doctors had monitored and treated him for several years, first using procedures intended to ease pressure while limiting risks to areas involved in hormone and metabolic control.
Follow-up checks showed the tumour’s cystic part had continued to grow, so the team decided to remove it.
A team of neurosurgeons, ear, nose and throat specialists and trained nurses completed the operation successfully without leaving scars or causing post-surgical swelling.
The boy left hospital within days and is doing well, having returned to his usual activities.
The team says the tumour can recur if removal is incomplete, but no further treatment or follow-up plan is specified.
Doctors at Meyer children’s hospital in Florence removed a benign brain tumour from a five-year-old boy through his nose using a minimally invasive endoscopic technique.
The operation left no scars or post-surgical swelling, and the boy was able to leave hospital in the following days.
The child had been monitored by the hospital team for years and had previously undergone two minimally invasive procedures.
The tumour, a craniopharyngioma, can recur if it is not completely removed.
- Who
- A five-year-old boy and a team at Meyer children’s hospital.
- What
- Surgeons removed a benign brain tumour through the boy’s nose using a minimally invasive endoscopic technique.
- When
- Not stated.
- Where
- Meyer children’s hospital in Florence, Italy.
- Why
- Follow-up checks showed the tumour’s cystic component had grown, so doctors decided to remove it.
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The boy’s care at Meyer children’s hospital began.
Routine checks showed growth in the tumour’s solid component and a new cystic part.
Follow-up checks showed that the cystic component had grown further.
The boy left hospital in the following days and resumed his usual activities.
- Patient’s age
- 5 years old
- Hospital
- Meyer children’s hospital, Florence
- Tumour
- Craniopharyngioma
- Surgical route
- Through the nose
- Technique
- Minimally invasive endoscopic surgery
What people are saying
The decision was to remove the craniopharyngioma