Large tumour removed from man's food pipe at Sir Gangaram Hospital
Endoscopy surgery to remove a tumour of the size of 6.5 cm from a 30-year-old man’s food pipe was performed successfully at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) in Delhi, said the hospital authorities on Sunday.
The doctors who performed the surgery said that it was one of the largest tumours), removed endoscopically, in India.
Prof Anil Arora, Chairman, Institute of Liver Gastroenterology and Pancreatico Biliary Sciences, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, said, “We recently removed a large submucosal tumour (6.5 cm in size) from the food pipe (esophageal leiomyoma-A tumour arising from the muscular layer of esophagus and protruding into the lumen causing dysphagia) in a 30-year-old male patient presenting with difficulty in swallowing. To our knowledge, this was one of the largest tumours, removed endoscopically, in India.”
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