9 kg tumour removed from patient at govt. hospital

Chennai | Saturday | 24th March, 2018

Summary:

The tumour was so large, Dr.

Chandrasekar explained, that it occupied the entire abdomen, displacing Mr.

Raj’s bowels and making the entire abdomen distended. more-inDoctors at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (GH) recently removed a mass weighing 9 kg that had developed in a man’s right kidney over the course of some 15 years. On March 15, the operation took place, led by the head of the surgical oncology department, R.

Balasubramanian. His right kidney was not functioning due to it. Discharge soonDuring the course of the procedure that took more than six hours, the mass, along with the right kidney where it had grown, was removed..