The growth, thought to be benign, developed without the woman's knowledge over many years, until she went to the doctor last month
VIENNA, Austria – Austrian surgeons removed a tumor weighing some 8 kilos, as heavy as a 7-month-old baby, from the stomach of a 75-year-old woman, doctors said Thursday, September 4.
“We have never seen such a large and heavy tumor,” Dr Gerhard Wolf from the University Hospital Graz (LKH) in southern Austria told a news conference.
The growth, thought to be benign, developed without the woman’s knowledge over many years, until she went to the doctor last month complaining of digestion problems and severe pain.
The two-hour operation took place on Friday and the patient is recovering well and will be discharged soon, doctors said. Her enormous tumor is being kept for tests, however. – Rappler.com
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