Before After

Compiled by Tony Meetei

Little Satyajit was born with a ‘ record ’. He does not ‘ hold ’ it any more though. But those who took it away from him - and saved his life - a year ago have now found their place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Yes. Dr Palin Khundongbam , the Managing Director and the man heading the hospital in Imphal, and his team made a new Guinness World Records by removing the ‘ gigantic neck tumor ’ that Satyajit was born with. The tumour weighed 1.2 Kgs or 40 per cent of his total body-weight of 3.0 Kgs. The operation was carried out on March 17, 2003, when he was just 12-day-old.
The previous record in this category was made by surgeons who had removed a neck-tumour that weighed 10 percent of the patient’s total body-weight. Laura Hughes of Guinness World Records Limited recently wrote to Dr Khundongbam, confirming that he had indeed set a new record.
Ranjitkumar of Ningomthong, a mushroom-trader, was frightened, when an ultrasonography at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Manipur’s capital Imphal, revealed that the baby, his wife Bilashini was carrying had a big mass of flesh attached to its neck. The doctors, however, could make a safe delivery through caessaraen section on March 5, 2003.
But the baby boy had a huge swelling at the right side of his neck. The swelling prevented head-movement because of its weight. It was irregular in shape, tensed with engorged blood vessels and necrosed at its distant most part, easily bleeding to touch. The trachea was shifted to the opposite side. After examination, Dr Khundongbam told them that if the tumour was not removed immediately, the baby’s life would be in danger. On the other hand, he explained to them, an operation to remove the tumour would also be very risky.
The child’s parents wanted to take a chance and opted for operation. It took 35 minutes to remove the swelling. The docs of the hospital tried their best to minimize the blood-loss. The child was monitored intensively for a day and then shifted to the general ward. Breast-feeding was started on the third day after operation. The stitches were removed on the eighth day.
The biopsy revealed that the tumour was a benign cystic hygroma. “ This is a rare birth deformity, formed by lymphatic vessels, commonly seen over the neck, axilla and groin and sometimes causes difficulty in birth. But the lesion in this case was extremely large and never seen before,” said the doctor.
That it was no mean feat to remove such a big swelling from a 12-day-old patient was known to Dr Khundongbam. However, he did not know that it could qualify for a record. But, some months later, he came to know from a TV programme that a such an operation by a doctor in a western country had been declared as a Guinness World Record, but the weight of the tumour in that case had been only 10 per cent of the patient’s total body-weight.
It was only then that Dr Khundongbam realized that what they did could indeed be recognized as a world-record, since the tumour in their case weighed 40 per cent of the patient’s body-weight. he wrote to the Guinness World Records Limited and sent all evidences, photos and video-clippings. And, early this month, the Guinness World Records Limited sent him a letter confirming that they have set a new world-record.
Satyajit was fine for several months after the operation. But, unfortunately, another tumour has appeared near his ear. It has been diagnosed as a malignant germ cell tumour and he is now undergoing radiotherapy. However, as Dr Khundongbam said, his present tumour is no way related with the one he was born with and the causes of their occurrence are also different.Thanks to Shija Hospitals a record has been set and more importantly a human life saved

 

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