“It’s not every day that a tumor of this size is removed,” said the chief surgeon, Glaucio Boacht. He told Jam Press about the unprecedented procedure that began on August 31 at San José do Ovay Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
An anonymous patient arrived at the clinic weighing 210 kg after suffering from shortness of breath, apparently caused by being overweight. After many tests, the medical teams discovered that a tumor weighing 100 kg was hidden in her stomach – the same weight as a hippopotamus fetus and is almost half of her body weight. After a brief evaluation, the team decided to remove the lesion immediately. “There were about 13 or 14 staff members in the operating room,” Boacht described. According to him: “The entire hospital mobilized to perform the unusual procedure.”
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The accompanying photos were shared by Dr. Bouacht, and they show the tumor before and after it was removed from the woman’s body. In one of them, the attending physician can be seen next to the unusual lesion, just like a farmer next to a huge pumpkin. once,” said the surgeon, who soon boasts two decades of experience.
After more in-depth tests were performed, scientists speculated that the source of the lesion was in the woman’s uterus, but were unable to know for sure what the source was because the results of the biopsy would arrive in about 20 days, Jam Press reported. If all that wasn’t enough, the doctors’ bigger question is why the woman waited five full years, and didn’t get tested until now.
The operation lasted about two hours, at the end of which the huge tumor was removed from the patient’s abdomen while she was “in a stable condition and breathing on her own.” She has since been released to her home and is awaiting the results of the biopsy test.