A team of surgeons and anaesthesiologists of Gateway Clinics here recently removed a tumour weighing 33.5 kg from the ovary of a 46-year-old woman from the Nilgiris.
The woman weighed 75.5 kg before the surgery.
After the removal of the tumour, her weight dropped to 42 kg, a press release issued by the hospital said.
The release added that the tumour was equivalent to combined weight of 11 new born babies, each of whose average weight would be 3 kg.
Earlier reports of the biggest tumour yet were the ones that were removed at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi and another at a Puducherry hospital. Each weighed 20 kg, the release said.
When brought to the hospital, the patient’s vital organs were displaced and shrunk due to the huge space occupied by the tumour.
Her abdominal wall had thinned out like a paper due to exponential growth of the tumour within the abdomen.
Team
Surgical gastroenterologist and laparoscopic surgeon K. Senthil Kumar, laparoscopic surgeons Piyush Patwa, V. Kandasamy, gynaecologist N. Anitha and anaesthesiologists D. Senthilkumar and Sathisha Kumar constituted the team that removed the tumour from the Nilgiris woman.