Ovarian tumour weighing 9kg removed by doctors in Patna

PATNA: A team of doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Patna (AIIMS-P) on Thursday successfully removed an ovarian tumour weighing about 9kg from a 14-year-old girl hailing from a village in Saran.
When the girl was examined and suggested immediate surgery, she tested Covid positive and was admitted for its treatment in the hospital. The doctors had to wait for over two weeks to undertake the surgery. The team led by Dr Jagjit Pandey and Dr Anil Kumar of surgery department said the tumour size was 34x32 centimetre.
Dr Anil said such a huge tumour exerts high pressure on other internal organs like lungs and intestine causing difficulty in breathing and it was sheer negligence in seeking medical suggestion on part of the family that it went on growing. The occurrence of ovarian tumour in early age is mostly genetic.
“Since the patient was under Covid treatment, we feared more complications due to low level of immunity but all the physiological parameters after the surgery were found proper,” he said.
Others in the team included Dr Nishant Sahay and Dr Sarfaraj of anesthesia and Dr Hemendra and Dr Satish of the surgery department.