The doctors at the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College,
Aligarh Muslim University have successfully used the latest “transhiatal
method” for operating a patient suffering from acute form of malignancy of
the food pipe (cancer of esophagus).
A team of surgeons, led by Dr. Mohd. Aslam and Dr. Mohd. Sadik Akhtar,
succeeded in implanting a new food pipe connecting the stomach to the lower
throat. The patient Mr. Rakesh Kumar had been suffering from the dyspaghia
(difficulty in eating and swelling) since the last six months and had been
unable to swallow any solid food during this period. After the operation
patient improved well and was discharged. The team of doctors, told that in
transhiatal method incisions are made on the abdomen and neck and no
incisions are made in the chest.
The operation was performed in Unit-III of General Surgery consisting of
Prof. Tariq Mansoor, Dr. Mohd. Aslam, Dr. Syed Amjad Ali Rizvi and Dr. Mohd.
Sadik Akhtar.
