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Huge Brain Tumor Operated On In Romania

Romanian plastic and neuro surgeons at Bagdasar Arseni Hospital operated one of the largest brain tumors in the world.

Two years ago, A.I., a 55 year old engineer from Romania, was told that due to its size and location, his huge recurrent brain tumor (Meningioma) was inoperable and that he should begin to take care of any unfinished businesses since the end was near and inevitable.

Following this very disruptive news, he and his family began looking for alternatives, from surgery or chemotherapy to more holistic approaches, but responses were similar, “you can sit on a mountain of money and nobody in the world will be able to operate your tumor” or “the case is surgically incurable.”

Filled with optimism and a strong will to survive, he continued to search in Romania and abroad and finally one day he arrived at the Bagdasar-Arseni Hospital in Bucharest, once the largest neurosurgery hospital in the world, today home of the National Centre of Excellence in Neurosurgery.

Here the surgeons recognized the complexity of the case and decided to form a mixed team for the surgery, lead by Prof. Dr. Ioan Florescu and Dr. Silviu Marinescu, and a neurosurgery team lead by Dr. Vasile Ciubotaru.

This mixed team of neuro and plastic surgeons studied the case to the smallest detail and found the solutions needed giving the first ray of hope to A.I. and his family.

In just a few weeks time since the first visit, Prof. Dr. Ioan Florescu and Dr. Vasile Ciubotaru together with their teams were operating one of largest brain tumors in the world and restoring his life back to a patient who like all others “wasn’t supposed to be there.”

During the surgery, the surgeons removed a huge tumor mass from both the inside and outside of the skull and a large area of the scalp that had been affected by the tumor. The extent of the removed scalp was so large that it needed plastic reconstruction and surgeons had to graft skin from both the back of the head and a large amount from patients’ leg in order to reconstruct his scalp.

Although complex and with huge blood loses, the surgery was a success and thanks to the dedication of the Romanian surgeons from the Bagdasar Arseni hospital, A.I. has been healing very well and lives a life not long ago almost denied to him.

The Romanian surgeons have proved once again how important the collaboration between neuro and plastic surgery can be and how joining forces like this can sometimes mean the difference between life and death.

Meningioma is a benign slow growing tumor of the cells of the covering of the brain (meninges). In the United States, menigniomas account for approximately 30 percent of all primary brain and CNS tumors. However, the true prevalence is higher since autopsies reveal that 2.3 percent of individuals have undiagnosed asymptomatic meningiomas.
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