Surgeons remove 10 kg tumour from farmer
A 60-yearold farmer from Rajasthan’s received a new lease of life after undergoing an over 10-hourlong complex surgery at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) here, for removing a huge tumour that occupied “80 percent space” in his abdomen, the hospital said in a statement on Sunday.
The tumour, weighing 10 kg and two feet long, was compressing on all structures of the man’s abdomen, including liver, both kidneys, stomach and spleen, doctors said.
Dr Ushat Dhir, consultant, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver transplantation at SGRH, said a “multi-disciplinary team” – urologist, neurologist and cardiologist – approach was used to work up the patient for the complex surgery.
“The tumour had grown so huge that it had displaced his intestines to the left side,” Dr Dhir said.
“This tum our was a well differentiated li po sarcoma (kind of cancer) and, to our knowledge, this is this largest liposarcoma removed until now, he added.
“The 60-year-old patient was suffering from discomfort in his stomach for the last six months. He was evaluated and the scan revealed a large tumour in his body occupying more than 80 per cent space in the abdomen,” the hospital said in its statement.
Hospital authorities said that the surgery would now also help in proper blood flow, to and from his heart.
Performing anaesthesia on the patient was complicated, as the tumour had compromised blood return to the heart, they added.
“The most complex part of the surgery was separating the tumour from renal veins, aorta and vena cava, without loosing blood or damaging these structures, and to achieve it the team had to conduct this surgery with absolute perfection,” Dr Dhir, the chief surgeon said.