Massive 15 kg Ovarian tumour removed from woman's abdomen at Patna hospital

Patna:  A massive ovarian tumour, weighing about 15 kg, has been surgically removed from the abdomen of a woman at a government hospital in Patna, doctors operating upon her said.

According to Dr Usha Kumari, a professor of gynaecology and obstetrics at the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital, the patient, aged 40, was admitted earlier this week with complaints of abdominal pain and swelling.

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"We were shocked to see reports of the tests Rupa Devi, a resident of Alamganj locality in the city, was made to undergo after she came here on Tuesday with the symptoms she was experiencing for a few months," said the doctor who headed the team which performed the operation.

She said the patient was out of danger after the surgery on Friday.

"To the best of my knowledge, the tumour was the largest ever to have been surgicaOvarianlly extracted in our department at NMCH," she added.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research's Advanced Cardiac Centre has done a rare high-risk surgery on a 90-year-old man, the first in the institute's history.

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The patient was not fit for open heart surgery but at the same time the angioplasty procedure was also very complex and high risk as the patient had heavily calcified left main trifurcation disease with a weak heart.

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