Mysore/Mysuru: Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Mysuru, has successfully performed Endoscopic Full Thickness Resection (EFTR) procedure to extract a rare slow growing tumour from a patient’s small intestine. The procedure was performed by Dr. A.K. Satheesh Rao, Consultant - Medical Gastroenterology, at the Hospital recently.
The patient, a 50-year-old female, was presented to the hospital with complaints of repeated abdominal pain. After thorough evaluation, Dr. Satheesh advised her for an upper GI Endoscopy. During the endoscopy, doctors found a substantially large (1.5 cm) lump growing inside the duodenum (first part of the small intestine). Biopsy of the lump revealed carcinoid tumour.
