Delhi Doctors remove 3 kg tumor from man's face after 11 hours of surgery
Panipat - Doctors in New Delhi, India have successfully removed a 3Kg massive tumor, equal to the size of an adult human head from the face of a 37-year old man. The marathon life-saving surgery that took 11 hours involved the removal of the patient's jaw and cheekbone and reconstruction of his face and neck was done to sustain the functional and aesthetic outcomes.
In order to shrink the size of the tumor, the patient had to be given two quick cycles of chemotherapy within a span of 3 weeks before the surgery. Since the chemotherapy was hardly having any effect on the tumor, the chances of its spread to other organs were high. The timing of the surgery was challenging too, as it was right in the middle of the ongoing pandemic. The patient was operated and the surgeons carefully excised the cancerous growth as a single piece that weighed 3 kgs and measured 18x12 cm with a depth of 8 cm.
The 37-year old Mahender (name changed), who was a regular tobacco chewer for several years, presented himself at the Max Hospital with an enormous tumor that covered the left side of his face. The cancerous tumor that was hanging from the left side of his face, was not only bleeding excessively but also had huge portions of dead and decaying cells. Due to the humongous size of the tumor, Mahender was having extreme difficulty in opening his mouth, eating food or even moving his head from side to side. He had also lost a lot of weight because of poor nutrition intake over the last few months.
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