I am very impressed with your anatomy terminology. Like I said,...

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06/03/15

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Originally posted by jantimot ↑

Thank you for you efforts falcons09. The tumour details tie in very well with everything I found out about them. But I didn't realise that it was only specialist surgeries that were not covered. I assumed all surgeries required some top up payments.

It is/was a benign tumour. But all that benign means is that it grows slowly, and doesn't metastase. So slowly that annual scans showed no growth at all. It was only when the symptoms (facial neuralgia, right eye turning less, continuous milk supply and menses not returning after our third child) intensified that we sent the scans back to the radiologist and got them to compare them five years apart that they admitted that it had grown (I'd already done that ...). So when it was operated on it was about 30 years old, and 15 years after it was first diagnosed. So far so good - after two and a half years the scan showed the remaining parts that the surgeon was unable to chisel, slice, tear or grind away have not only not grown, but have probably shrunk slightly, and it appears as though it is also dying off as he lasered, cauterised and burnt as much of the parts that he couldn't remove. For the record, yes, it is in the worst position possible for a tumour, and the remains are "in the region of the right petrous apex, extending inferiorly to the clivus and anteriorly to the sphenoid wing, and posteriorly it involves the right leaf of the tentorium cerebelli. It is seen to fill Meckel's cave and the sella turcica with encasement of the right internal carotid artery and leftward displacement of the basilar artery."

Impressive, huh? And that's after he took half of it out! Removing it from the brain stem, optic nerve and pituitary gland.

Next scan this month.

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I am very impressed with your anatomy terminology. Like I said, these neurosurgeons make me look like a child.
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