Surgeons operated on 52-year-old woman for more than three hours.Patient had no idea the giant tumour was invading her womb.Doctors say due to its size it could have been growing for two years.Tumour measured 21 inches in diameter – similar to the size of a water.melon.
Woman, identified only as Latha, is recovering at home after her ordeal
The world’s biggest uterine tumour, weighing 30lbs and measuring 21 inches in diameter, has been removed from an Indian woman.
Doctors in the southern city of Chennai performed a complex operation on a 52-year-old woman identified as Latha.
She had been suffering breathlessness and fatigue for several years but had no idea the giant tumour – similar to the size of a watermelon – was growing inside her.
A month ago, the 52-year-old arrivied at Chennai’s Kumaran Hospital, bleeding heavily.
Doctors ran tests and discovered she was severely anaemic, before detecting a ‘large fibroid’ growth attached to the outer surface of the uterus, which was putting pressure on her body and causing her symptoms.
Dr Mani Mekalai, head of the hospital’s department of obstetrics and gynaecology, said the team were ‘shocked’ to find the massive growth.
She said: ‘In medical parlance, this is called a super giant uterine fibroid and the largest one removed before this, in Africa weight 21lbs.
