The largest tumor ever removed weighs almost the same as three
bags of cement? It was a multicystic mass of the right ovary. It was
removed in its entirety as a single mass of 137.6 kg (303 lb). It was
removed in its entirety in October 1991 from the abdomen of an unnamed
34-year-old woman.
The tumor which was removed intact was a
multicystic mass of the right ovary weighing 137.6 kg (303 lb). The
patient had a final weight of 95 kg (210 lb) after the operation and has
made a full recovery left the operating theater on a stretcher and the
cyst left on another.It has to be carefully exercised with the patient resting on his sides so as to not be crushed by it. The operation, which took over six hours and was
performed by Professor Katherine O Hanlan of Stanford University Medical
Center, California, USA. The growth had a diameter of 1 m (3 ft).
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