The department of urology at AIIMS Bhopal has performed a complicated surgery for penile cancer. In the past, such an operation would have caused significant complications in more than half the patients.
A newer procedure called Video-Endoscopic Inguinal Lymphadenectomy (VEIL) is now performed, which uses a camera to remove the tumour completely with minimal incisions and complications.
AIIMS Bhopal is one of the very few centres in the country that perform this. This technique has been further modified by the Department of Urology, AIIMS Bhopal to reduce the time of surgery from 4-5 hours to 2 hours.
Reduced operative time and small incisions lead to quicker recovery from major surgery. The department of urology has named this procedure SimBilVEIL (Simultaneous Bilateral VEIL) and is the first centre in Madhya Pradesh and among the few centres in India to perform this.
The surgery was done 6 weeks ago and the patient is doing fully well now. The surgery was performed by a team of 4 surgeons lead by Dr Manoj Biswas and Dr Kumar Madhavan and a team of anaesthesiologists lead by Dr Ashutosh Kaushal.
The team of doctors was praised by the Director of AIIMS Bhopal, Dr Ajai Singh for their good work.
Urologic cancers can be treated if detected early. Apart from penile cancer, other urological cancers including testicular, prostate, kidney and bladder cancers are also managed by the urology department, AIIMS Bhopal.
The early signs of these cancers including ulceration of the penis, change in size of the testis, blood in the urine and difficulty in passing urine. Patients with these symptoms should visit a urologist and seek medical attention.