Summary:
more-inA surgery that would have cost several lakhs of rupees at any private hospital was performed successfully by the Plastic Surgery Department of Osmania General Hospital (OGH), free of cost. Finally, Varun was operated upon and Dr.
Lakshmi meticulously removed the AV malformation without any damage to the major vessel. “This type of tumour is not very common and in this case, the malformation was encasing the major vessel of the lower limb,” she said. Seven-year-old Varun, son of Begum Bazaar residents Kavitha and Murali, had a swelling in the right thigh for the past three years. With cooperation of radiologists Vijaya, Nadeem and Ayesha, the team of doctors could know the exact location, number of feeder vessels into the tumour from the major vessel..