The liver unit team at Wockhardt Hospitals performed a life saving liver resection on an eighteen months old baby. The team led by Dr S K Mathur, senior consultant surgeon, HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation, Wockhardt Hospitals successfully completed the four hours surgery on this baby without any complications.

Sumana, a native of Orissa was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a rare cancerous tumour that originates in the liver. The tumour was detected at a rather locally advanced stage complicating matters for the ailing child. After undergoing chemotherapy at another Mumbai hospital she was referred to Wockhardt Hospitals for further intervention.

"The chemotherapy that Sumana had taken served to downsize the tumour in her liver to make it more resectable." says Dr Mathur. "But it was the late detection that had worsened Sumana's case. Cases of liver tumours in such young children are very rare almost one in a million. Managing such a small baby for a major liver resection was quite a difficult task and such surgeries are not commonly done on them."

Dr Mahesh Goel, consultant Onco Surgeon; Dr Sangeeta Shetty, consultant anesthetist; and Dr Ravindra Karanjekar, associate VP of Wockhardt Hospitals were the other members in surgery team.