Summary:
Doctors at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), where the tumour was removed and his lower jaw reconstructed, believe that such a huge 20X15X10cm jaw tumour is rarely found in medical literature. KOCHI: A 5.3kg cancerous tumour was removed from the left lower jaw of a 53-year-old man in a city hospital. “As there was no lower jaw remaining, we fixed the leg bone with titanium plates to the upper jaw and with wires to the skull. “The tumour, including the lower jaw, was removed in a 12-hour surgery. But two years later, the disease recurred, again at the right lower jaw, and he needed another surgery..