A team of Saudi specialist surgeons at the King Khalid Hospital, King Saud University has succeeded in the excision of an infected part of the lung of a patient by using microcell technology. The medical team was headed by Assistant Professor, Dr Sami Nassar of Faculty of Medicine, KSU, King Khalid Hospital with participation of thoracic surgery consultant Dr Waseem Hajjar, Interventional Radiologist Turki Al-Fehaid and anaesthetist, Dr. Ahmed Althelaj. Dr. Musa'ed Mohamed Al Salman, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the supervisor of the university hospitals, expressed his deep happiness over this achievement of thoracic surgery unit at King Khalid University, which emphasizes the role of the Faculty of Medicine and university hospitals to highlight the distinctive roles of Saudi doctors at various levels and in all specialization. Dr. Sami Al-Nassar further explained the stages of treatment, saying that the patient was a thirty-year-old who suffered from a small tumor in the right lung recorded by Computed tomography (CT). The whole operation was conducted in two phases: the identification of the place of the injured part of the lung by using CT. and the transfer the patient to the operating room for the excision of the infected part of the lung by using endoscopic surgery. He noted that the recent technology helps the eradication of a sample of the lung without the need for a large part of the surgery, adding that it helps to avoid the eradication of a large part of the lung which may result in complications that affect lung functions. Dr. Nassar further said that the thoracic surgery unit at King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University is considered the second center in the world after Canada, which carries out such operations.
