Health
Italian doctors remove tumor weighing a staggering 70kgs
An ovarian tumor weighing over 70 kg was successfully removed during emergency surgery at a hospital in Italy recently after the female patient started having breathing problems.
“In recent weeks a young woman came to the emergency room at the Molinette hospital of the City of Health in Turin with respiratory failure caused by the presence of a very voluminous benign abdominal expansive formation,” local media reported, citing a hospital statement.
According to the hospital, the tumor had been pressing on the woman’s lungs, preventing her from breathing properly. She was then intubated until surgery could be performed.
The hospital reported that the woman suffered no complications during or after surgery and has since been released from the hospital.