Visakhapatnam: In another complicated surgery, the King George Hospital neurosurgeons successfully removed an arrow from the skull of a tribal woman. B. Subhadhra, 40, from Lankapakala village of G.K. Veedhi mandal, was attacked by her husband with an arrow in a drunken state on August 11, in which the arrow went through her right eye into the brain.
When the patient tried to remove the arrow from her skull, the wooden handle got detached from the arrow, leaving the arrowhead in the brain through her right eye behind. After multiple referrals to various hospitals in Visakhapatnam district, she was finally brought to Neurosurgery Department in KGH.
Upon further evaluation, the arrowhead was found to have penetrated through the right lower eyelid, passed between the eyeball and the lower surface of the orbit, pierced the posterior orbital wall and entered into the brain (right temporal lobe).
She was operated on an emergency basis within two hours during which the skull was opened and the arrow was removed the arrow was removed successfully from the brain. The patient is recovering.
Dr. M. Madhusudhana Babu, superintendent of KGH, appreciated Dr. K. Satyavara Prasad, Dr. Muralikrishna and their team of doctors for performing the complicated surgery successfully.
“Whenever a penetrating injury either with knife, sickle, axe, scissors or arrow occurs, we should not pull the penetrating object out because bleeding will occur and the patient will die. They have to come to the hospital with the object so that the surgical team will remove the object, besides protecting the vital organs and securing homeostasis,” he added.
