Shopian: For the first time, a laparoscopic enucleation of hydatid cyst of liver was performed at district hospital Shopian
A doctor posted at the hospital told KNO that a 45-year-old hypertensive female patient was radiologically diagnosed with a huge hydatid cyst of the right lobe of liver and was operated successfully.
“The surgery ’laparoscopic en-nucleation of hydatid cyst of Liver’ was performed under the meticulous expertise of laparoscopic surgeon Dr Seth Mujtaba and the anaesthesia team comprising of Dr Ajaz wani and Dr Aatif Nabi Shah,” he said.
The laparoscopic hydatid cyst surgery is a procedure that is usually performed at tertiary care centers in view of the surgical expertise needed and high anaesthetic risk (in view of potential anaphylaxis).