Doctors remove 23 kilogram tumor

23 kilogram tumor successfully eliminated in a patient from Bulgaria

20/08/2013

For several years now amazing results have been reported in the surgical removal of giant tumors. According to media reports, surgeons in Bulgaria now succeeded in removing a 23-kilogram tumor from the stomach of a 67-year-old female patient.

In view of the improved surgical procedures, tumors are also operable today, which until a few years ago were still considered inoperable. The Bulgarian patient had known about the tumor for 20 years, but surgery was out of the question for a long time. The fact that such an intervention is also a special feature for experienced specialists, is clear from the statement of the surgeon Boschidar Slawtschew in the press release of the University Hospital Sofia. Slavchev emphasized that he had never seen anything comparable in his career so far.

Increasingly successful operations on giant tumors
For around five years, there are increasing numbers of reports worldwide about the successful removal of huge, previously inoperable tumors. For example, in Berlin in 2009, the removal of a malignant bone tumor weighing around 18 kilograms was carried out on the pelvis of a 35-year-old female patient from Saudi Arabia. In 2012, a 14-kilogram ovarian tumor was removed from a woman's clinic at the University Hospital of Cologne, and an additional 18-kilogram tumor of the uterus was removed from the Clemens Hospital in Münster by another patient. In October, the removal of a 28-kilogram tumor from the abdomen of a senior citizen at the University Hospital Dresden followed. The largest tumor to date removed 90 pounds and was unimaginable by an international medical team in a more than 13-hour operation in early 2012 with a man from Vietnam removed. (Fp)

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