Golden News (Correspondent Zhao Guanjing, Reporter He Yan) There are only 40 reported cases of hemangioblastoma in the spinal cord worldwide. To remove the tumor in the spinal cord, the difficulty of surgery can be imagined. Recently, Gao Xiang, director of the Ningbo branch of neurosurgery at Shanghai Huashan Hospital, the first hospital in Ningbo, led his team to successfully complete this operation for patient Xiao Yang, and the tumor was completely removed from the spinal cord. This is the first case of spinal cord hemangioblastoma surgery done independently in Ningbo. A tumor grew in the spinal cord of a young woman Xiao Yang was 25 years old and was about to enter into a happy marriage. However, recently, she felt pain in her lower back, and eventually it became too painful to stand up, and her legs were as heavy as if they were filled with lead. When she went to the hospital, the results showed that she had a tumor in her spinal cord, which had many blood vessels and was possibly malignant. The doctor said there was nothing she could do about the tumor and told her to go to Shanghai or Beijing. After Dr. Gao read her test results, he thought it was a rare hemangioblastoma and a benign tumor. He told Xiao Yang that such tumors had been successfully removed in Shanghai before, and he was confident that he could help him to free himself from the disease. The doctor opened the bone plate of Yang and saw that the spinal cord where the tumor was located was obviously enlarged and there were many blood vessels on the surface of the tumor, coiling like earthworms. Dr. Gao carefully cut the spinal cord under the microscope and carefully removed one blood supplying artery of the tumor along the border of the tumor. Everything had to be done with great care, because in the process of separating the tumor, if the blood vessels ruptured, it would cause hemorrhage; meanwhile, each of the spinal nerves around the tumor has a specific function, and a little damage would cause Xiao Yang’s sequelae such as paralysis and urinary and fecal incontinence. As the blood vessels were cut off one by one, the tumor began to crumple. After 6 hours of intense surgery, Xiao Yang’s tumor was finally removed completely.