Doctors remove 4kg tumour after surgery from woman's body

NEW DELHI: The doctors at a city private hospital recently removed a large smooth muscle tumour — also called a fibroid — from a 47-year-old woman. The tumour was as big as a fullgrown fetus, doctors said.

“The woman first came to Sir Ganga Ram hospital (SGRH) in 2009 with complaints of pain in abdomen and abnormally high bleeding at menstruation. The ultrasound conducted then clearly showed a fibroid of 3.3cm x2.3cm but no active management was done by the family back then,” said Dr Debasis Dutta, senior consultant, department of minimally invasive gynaecology at SGRH.

“When she came to us again in January, the tumour had grown to 23cmx23cmx16 cm and it weighed four kilograms.”

He added that it took nearly three hours to remove the tumour, along with uterus, owing to high suspicion of malignance in the mass.