Jaipur, June 14 -- A team of the ENT and Head and Neck Surgeons at the Mahatma Gandhi Hospital here, has successfully performed, a highly complex surgery for a Carotid Body Tumor (Carotid Body Paraganglioma) on a Yemeni patient.

The surgery that happens to be the first operation of this sort in any hospital of Rajasthan, was performed by a high profiled team of doctors led by world renowned ENT and Head surgeon Prof (Dr) Suresh Chandra Sharma along with Dr. Bhinyaram, on a 64-year-old Yemeni woman, Mrs. Sabah Omar Mohammed Ba Naga, setting a new benchmark in advanced head and neck surgery.

Though, this was the first case of successful Carotid Body Tumor surgery in Rajasthan, team leader Prof Sharma, former Head of the ENT Department, at A...