The rare tumor of spinal cancer was taken into the patient’s eye at the University Hospital

A young woman from Maryland is “relieved and recovering” after doctors made a new surgery to eliminate their potentially fatal cancerous tumors.

A surgical team at Maryland University Medical Center (UMMC) extracted tumors, which had been wrapped around the spinal cord, through the patient’s eyes.

This was the first time that surgeons have eliminated a spinal tumor through a “transorbital” approach, according to a UMMC press statement.

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Karla Flores was only 19 years old when he was diagnosed with a cordoma, which is a bone tumor of development, in his spine.

At the age of 18, Flores began to experience a dual vision, leading to his diagnosis months later.

The cordomas are very rare, with only about 300 cases that occur in the United States each year.

“The tumor was wrapped around the spine and the patient’s marrow and had invaded the vertebrae on the neck, just below the base of the skull,” according to Mohamed Labib, MD, a neurosurgeon at the Medical Center of the University of Maryland, and assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

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“The primary risks were to injure the brain trunk, the marrow or the main blood vessels with the drill or the instruments until we used; any of these injuries could have resulted in paralysis or even death,” said Labib a Fox News Digital.

“But without surgery, the cordoma could have continued to grow and pressure intensely on the spinal cord. This would also have paralyzed the arms and legs, and finally killed it. So you can see how the bets were very high with this procedure.”

The surgeons created a “huge surgical hallway” through the eyes of the eyes that allowed them to put them in front of the spinal cord.

“It was a straight shot,” Labib said.

“When passing through the bottom of the eyes, we were able to remove a tumor that would otherwise have been very difficult and very risky to address.”

“Learning about the tumors of the marrow and the brain was scary, but I am very grateful that doctors can eliminate them.”

During the procedure, LABIB worked with a plastic and facial reconstructing surgeon, Kalpesh T. Vakharia, MD, who “carefully cut the conjunction, the transparent membrane that protected the eye, inside the lower eyelid without disturbing the eye.”

To create the way to the spine, Vakharia removed the bottom of the flower eyes and a part of the cheekie, said the launch.

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“We wanted to develop a surgical plan where there would be no external scars and it would be impossible to say that the patient even had surgery,” said Vakharia.

After Labib eliminated the tumor, Vakharia rebuilt the bottom of the eye dam by means of a titanium plate and rebuilt the cheek with the patient’s hip’s hip, the release was detailed.

“It was incredible to have had the opportunity to be part of the surgery that had never been done before,” Vakharia added.

This approach also avoided any damage to the Eustachian tube, the main blood vessels such as the jugular vein and the internal carotid artery and the nerves that control the deck and speech, said Labib.

Prior to Flores surgery, LABIB had the opportunity to practice the transorbital procedure in corpses “many times”.

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“The fact that people are willing to give their bodies to science allowed us to do this and save the life of this young woman,” he said.

Flores also had a large tumor around the cerebral stem, which was removed through two separated procedures through the skull and nose, said the launch.

The tumors of the spine could have endangered their lives if they had grown to the point that they caused a significant compression of the cerebral stem, according to Andrea M. Hebert, MD, a UMCC head and neck surgeon who performed the endonasal procedure and participated in transorbital surgery.

“Many of these tumors are repeated and that is why we favor a multidisciplinary approach to treatment,” Hebert said in the statement.

Flores has also undergone radiotherapy to remove remaining cancer cells.

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“Karla is doing very well: she has recovered from surgery and radiation and is ready to return to work and school,” Labib shared with Fox News Digital.

“She is an incredibly brave young girl who has faced most of her age. I hope the same spirit force will take her in a promising future.”

“Learning about the tumors of the marrow and the brain was scary, but I am very grateful that doctors can eliminate them.”

Flores has nerve damage due to the proximity of the tumor to the cerebral stem, which has caused some problems with the movement of the left eye.

“Learning about the tumors in the spine and the brain was scary, but I’m really grateful that doctors can eliminate them,” Flores said, who plans to go to school to become a manicurist.

“I recover slowly and with any problems I have, they help me,” he continued.

“I keep remembering -me to take one day at a time and I know that every step is a success.”

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Flores now plans to go to school to become a manicurist.

In front, the UMMC team plans to demonstrate the transorbital procedure this fall to neurosurgers around the world, in its annual course skull surgery.

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“When you have such an expanded aisle to reach these tumors, you can completely eliminate them, which greatly reduces the recurrence of cancer,” Labib told Fox News Digital.

“We also have other patients who will receive similar surgeries in the near future.”