New Delhi, Feb 28 (Ians) A 51-year-old man with two tumours in the abdomen equal to the size of a large watermelon and a football has been successfully operated upon, doctors here said on Tuesday.
The bilateral adrenal tumours are “the world’s largest adrenal tumours removed so far”, doctors at Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, said in a statement.
The tumours measuring 20 x 20 cm (right side) and 12 x 10 cm (left side) in size and weighing 4.5 kg and 1 kg each were located deep in the upper part of the abdomen at the top of the kidney where adrenal is situated. Adrenal glands normally measure about 2 cm in an adult.
The tumours were so huge that they made the patient’s abdomens protrude outwards and had displaced internal organs around them.
The patient, Bivash Chandra Tivari, a resident of Bihar was admitted to the hospital with complaints of loss of appetite, constipation...
The bilateral adrenal tumours are “the world’s largest adrenal tumours removed so far”, doctors at Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, said in a statement.
The tumours measuring 20 x 20 cm (right side) and 12 x 10 cm (left side) in size and weighing 4.5 kg and 1 kg each were located deep in the upper part of the abdomen at the top of the kidney where adrenal is situated. Adrenal glands normally measure about 2 cm in an adult.
The tumours were so huge that they made the patient’s abdomens protrude outwards and had displaced internal organs around them.
The patient, Bivash Chandra Tivari, a resident of Bihar was admitted to the hospital with complaints of loss of appetite, constipation...
- 2/28/2023
- by News Bureau
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