Doctors remove Coconut-size tumour from 72-year-old man's thyroid gland at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
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Overview
Doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital have removed a 20-centimetre coconut-sized tumour from the thyroid glands of a patient. The 72-year-old patient is a farmer from Begusarai, Bihar. For a period of the last 6 months, he was suffering from difficulty in breathing and swallowing.
The problem started increasing so much that his quality of life was totally hampered. He was brought to the Department of ENT and Head, Neck Onco Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi last month.
In this video, Dr. Sangeet Agarwal, Associate Consultant (Head and Neck Onco Surgeon), Sir Ganga Ram Hospital talks about the challenges, uniqueness, and prognosis of the case.
Speakers
Dr. Sangeet Agarwal, MBBS, DLO, DNB (ENT-HNS), MNAMS (ENT-HNS), is an Associate Consultant (Head and Neck Onco Surgeon) at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. His interests lie in oral cancer surgeries, all vocal cord cancer ( Larynx ), hypopharyngeal surgeries, thyroid gland surgeries, salivary gland tumor surgeries.
Roshni Dhar, a Mass com graduate with a soft corner for health happenings, joined Medical Dialogues as a news anchor in 2021. Inspired by her mother who is a gynaecologist, she likes to keep herself and the world updated on the occurring in the medical field. She covers various aspects of health news for MDTV at Medical Dialogues. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751
