Doctors have removed an incredibly large tumor from a 66-year-old Italian woman. The rare liposarcoma was removed by the oncology team (pictured above) of the general surgery department of the “Giovanni Paolo II” Tumor Institute in Bari, southern Italy, Italian media reported on Friday.
For about a year, the Italian woman noticed that her stomach was swelling more and more. At the same time, the woman had less and less appetite and lost weight. Then the enormous 50-kilogram tumor was discovered. It was removed in a complicated operation that took four hours.
The tumor occupied almost the entire abdominal cavity
“It is a rare case of oncological surgery that requires a high level of experience in clinical-surgical treatment, as the tumor mass occupied the entire abdominal cavity and extended into the left kidney, left colon, left pancreas, uterine appendages and partially penetrated the left kidney, left colon, left pancreas and uterine appendages. diaphragm,” explained the General Director of the Oncology Institute, Alessandro Delle Donne.
32 kg tumor removed from young German woman
Only recently, doctors in Magdeburg, Germany, cut out a 32-kilogram tumor in a young patient: the huge tumor had formed in the woman’s ovary – the 24-year-old did not go to the hospital for a long time because she was afraid of the operation.
Source: Krone
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