Chapter 395 - Solving The Root Of The Problem (1/2)

Zheng Ren was a little depressed for the rest of the day.

He was upset whenever he thought about the dead child with livor mortis being used as a p.a.w.n in their cruel scheme.

The child’s lips were rather dark, which led to Zheng Ren’s suspicion of it having congenital heart defects.

Maybe this was the reason the family sold the child to the crime group.

Zheng Ren felt dizzy when he returned to the ward. He then went to observe Chief Sun’s surgery on peritoneal loose body resection.

The loose body was removed and dissected. The interior structure looked exactly like a goose egg as Zheng Ren had mentioned earlier.

Chief Sun complimented him but his mind was elsewhere.

The gynecology department then called to inform him that the girl who had pulmonary embolism had gone through the dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure. The filter could be removed after a few days.

That girl? Zheng Ren’s lips curved upwards when he recalled the interaction between her father and boyfriend.

Life was more than just darkness, there was family and love.

In the afternoon, Chang Yue dragged him to the CT room to do a 64-slice CT scan with 3D-image reconstruction for Zheng Yunxia.

Zheng Yunxia had received two interventional embolization surgeries. Her liver tumor had shrunk to approximately 4 cm due to the interventional surgery’s positive effects.

The left lobe of her liver was removed, but her caudate lobe was growing like a weed.

The liver had a strong ability to regenerate. Zheng Yunxia’s regenerated caudate lobe managed to restore her liver function to a state before she had the disease.

All of this was undoubtedly good news.

Chang Yue looked at the scans with a smile on her face.

Zheng Ren was in deep thought.

The effect of interventional embolization surgery worked best when the tumor size was large. If the tumor was small, the blood supplying vessels were thinner and not all of them could be successfully embolized.

This was different from prostate interventional surgery. He only needed to embolize most of the arteries as the other parts of hyperplasia would slowly die off, improving the symptoms such as frequent micturition, urgent micturition, and urodynia.

Furthermore, considering the patient’s age, he might be dead before the hyperplasia recurred.

However, if there were any remaining blood supply to the malignant tumor, it would multiply indefinitely and grow in an uncontrolled manner, resulting in cancer recurrence.

Zheng Yunxia’s malignant hepatic tumor had been successfully contained. The best option was to complete the embolization surgery and proceed with radiofrequency ablation.

Zheng Ren gave a low hum while he stared at the scans on the film viewer. He did not start with the 64-slice CT scan with 3D-image reconstruction.

Chang Yue was puzzled. Initially, she tried to be polite and refrained from asking. However, after seeing Zheng Ren in silence for quite some time, she could not help but ask anxiously, “Chief Zheng, didn’t Sister Zheng’s condition get…better? You…”

“Uhm, she’s doing very well,” Zheng Ren said. “I’m just thinking about how to remove it entirely from the roots.”

Removing it from the roots…

Chang Yue felt that Zheng Ren was joking. If it was Su Yun who said it, she would have teased him right away.

However, Zheng Ren rarely joked.

Given his personality, he would crack a joke so bad that it makes others feel despair.

Could it be true?

“Zheng Ren, the king of liver cancer…” Chang Yue said with hesitation.

“Uhm, you can see that the tumor has shrunk to one-tenth of its original size. We need a new method to tackle it. We can remove the tumor but to uproot it entirely… That depends on the individual’s genetics but our current technology doesn’t allow us to identify the tumor’s source,” Zheng Ren said.

“Boss, are you suggesting radiofrequency ablation?” Professor Rudolf Wagner asked while flipping his golden locks. “I’m really good at this. In fact, most of the mainstream interventional doctors are gradually moving away from interventional embolization surgery as it requires the surgeon to be exposed under X-rays. I’ve already begun to use radiofrequency ablation as the surgery’s main procedure.”

“Uhm, we’re going to do radiofrequency ablation,” Zheng Ren said.

“Let’s do it then. It’s just a simple surgery, there’s no need to overthink it,” Professor Rudolf Wagner said.

Suddenly, Zheng Ren realized that he might be forgetting something.