A team of doctors removed a benign bone tumour from the elbow of a 30-year-old man, in an interventional radiology-guided orthopaedic surgery, in a CT suite. Govindaraj, clinical head and senior consultant, Department of Orthopaedics, MGM Healthcare, said the patient had experienced pain in the right elbow while exercising in a gym and had met a general practitioner. An MRI scan picked up a lesion — osteoid osteoma, a benign tumour that is of 1.5 cm size, in the bone. Through a 5 mm skin incision and CT-guided drilling, excision of lesion was done under general anaesthesia, he added. Navin Gnanasekaran, associate director, medical services, and senior consultant, Department of Interventional Radiology, said the minimally invasive interventional radiology-guided orthopaedic surgery in a CT suite helped bone and joint preservation.

Source: The Hindu October 11, 2019 19:41 UTC