Sion Hospital doctors in Guinness book of World records for removing largest kidney tumour
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MUMBAI: A team of doctors from Sion hospital Mumbai have set new record in the medical field with their names being registered in the Guinness World Records for removing world's heaviest kidney tumour weighing 5.5 Kg.
The team of doctors led by Dr Ajit Sawant, head of urology had performed the surgery in the year 2016 on a 28-year-old woman, Manju Devi from Bihar's Darbhanga district.
The tumour was removed on November 2016 in an eight-hour long surgery performed by Dr Ajit Sawant, Dr Prakash Pawar and uroanesthetists Dr Geeta Patkar and Dr Aparna Nerulkar. The Guinness confirmation came only recently, as it takes around six months to validate claims.
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