Chapter 294: New Problems
The imaging evidence cannot be faked, and Luo Ge himself has ruled out the possibility of system noise or imaging errors.
There is no prompt in the status bar, this is a doubt. But this doubt can only be solved by Sun Lien himself. What the team can solve is another question.
What is this thing?
Intracerebral tumors are not uncommon. According to pathological properties, there are mainly glioblastoma, meningioma, adenoma, schwannoma, congenital tumor and other rare swellings. There are seven categories of metastatic tumors.
Analysis of the distribution area of the lesion tissue that appeared briefly and disappeared after disappearing from Luo Ge found that glioblastoma is more likely - although this does not explain why they disappear naturally after they appear.
The tumor may heal itself, although this possibility is so small that it is equivalent to a miracle. Is it possible that it is healing itself? Sun Lien frowned, held the information in his left hand, and grabbed Brother Luo with his right hand, and returned to the office of the First Diagnostic Group.
"Tang Min's side is a bit special." After calling all the doctors in the entire diagnosis team, Sun Lien held a meeting in the diagnosis team in the office. "Brother Luo, please tell me what the situation is."
Luo Sanguan had no other opinions, so he honestly began to talk about his discovery according to Sun Lien's request. Sun Lien continued to bow his head and ponder.
The human immune system has the ability to remove abnormal cells. Moreover, the ability to remove cells is not weak. The cells in the human body divide every day. After some abnormalities occur during the division process, the cells that produce infinite division ability and are easily shed and transferred from other cells. At the same time, they are also differentiable are what people often call cancer cells.
Everyone's body produces cancer cells during cell division. But not everyone will suffer from cancer - this is because the immune system in the human body is working. When the number of cancer cells is lower than a certain level, the immune system can clear them out to prevent these rapid and undivided abnormal cells from affecting the normal operation of the human body.
But this is protection at the cellular level. Once cancer cells expand to the size of "5mm" that can be seen by MRI, it becomes an almost impossible task to rely solely on the human body's own immune system to solve them. On the one hand, cancer cells will suppress and evade the attacks of the immune system through various mutations. On the other hand, they have exceeded the limit that NK cells can handle - cancer cells proliferate extremely fast, and a large number of cancer cells reproduce rapidly. The number of new cancer cells added every day has exceeded the upper limit that the normal human immune system can handle.
When a dynamic balance system is broken, the entire system will fall into a rapid imbalance. Cancer cells and normal human tissues compete for oxygen and nutrients, while expanding tumors compress and hinder the normal work of other organs... This is the main threat faced by cancer patients.
So...How did Tang Min solve this threat? Sun Lien himself knew very well that as doctors, they had not given Tang Min clinically meaningful treatments in the previous period. The one who could solve the threat must be Tang Min himself. It was not that the bag of mannitol miraculously cured the cancer after being injected into it, right? Mannitol anti-cancer... This is not more credible than Qigong anti-cancer.
There is no progress in the thinking in this direction. Sun Lien decided to consider it in another direction. He focused on the glue block in his hand again. The imaging accuracy of MRI is 5mm, which is determined by the physical characteristics of MRI. So... why did the doctors in the imaging department not find this lesion a few days ago?
After disassembling the rubber blocks one by one, Sun Lien immediately discovered the key to the problem. The reason why Luo Ge cuts these films and sticks them together is because of this problem - the low signal of these placeholding areas is not strong. To the point that normal people can understand, the moisture content of them and the surrounding brain tissue is not too great. If multiple images were not superimposed and artificially increased some contrast, it would be almost impossible to identify these lesions by the naked eye alone.
This seems to be a direction worth further investigation. At this moment, Luo Sanguan had basically completed the situation report, and Sun Lien took over the conversation very smoothly.
"First of all, to discuss what this lesion is, we have to clarify the nature of the lesion." Sun Lien stood up, held coffee in his hand, and said to his colleagues around him, "First of all, it should be a lesion with a higher moisture content than the surrounding area - I don't think everyone should have any objections to this."
Xu Yourong nodded and added, "From the vagueness of boundary, it is indeed a high possibility of malignant lesions."
"Malignant tumors, this is a discussion direction." Sun Lien turned around and wrote this inference on the whiteboard in the office. "Is there any other possibility?"
"It may be an ischemia lesions, right?" Dr. Bruen suggested. "I have seen some patients with plaque-like hypostatus with less clear boundaries - they were finally confirmed to be an ischemia lesions."
"Ischemia is also a direction that needs to be considered." Compared to the tumor disappearing on its own, Sun Lien is more willing to believe that these low signal effects are formed by short-term ischemia. After all, it is much easier to re-energize blood vessels than to eliminate cancer cells.
Yuan Ping'an frowned and said, "This lesion did not appear before, it was a new occurrence after admission. So it must be not a congenital abnormality..." He shook his head, "It can't be the consequence of your bag of mannitol, right?"
"Time doesn't match." Sun Lien sighed. If it was really the result of mannitol, he felt relieved. "There are four new releases in total, and only the first one appears quickly after mannitol is used. The other three are produced after the first area disappears. This time node cannot match."
"If it is insufficient blood supply... then why does it disappear on its own?" Other doctors in the group seemed to agree with Luo Ge and Xu Yourong's hypothesis of "malignant lesions". Zhou Ce raised the problem with insufficient blood supply at the beginning, "because the tiny arterial spasm of the brain caused ischemia, and then after the spasm was relieved by itself, the ischemic lesions completely disappeared?"
This is a reason that seems most likely at present, but is actually untenable. Luo Ge shook his head directly, "If this is an ischemia sect, the ischemia time must have lasted more than 48 hours. If the brain tissue ischemia for a long time, the damage is irreversible - how can it be absorbed?"
Everyone discussed for a while, but still couldn't tell the truth. In the end, everyone could only put away their voices and looked at Sun Lien with a helping look.
"No matter how unbelievable this answer is, after all other answers are ruled out, the last possibility of the remaining answer is the answer." Sun Lien said after pondering for a moment, "Can it be... really a tumor?"
Chapter completed!