Summary:
According to Pethe, after the successful surgery, Yash on the same evening damaged the stitches on his lower lips. As per Dr Shailesh Pethe, Veterinary Officer for SGNP it was in February that they found the growth on the left side of the lower lip. In a three- hour long surgery, a team of Veterinarian successfully removed a tennis ball sized growth from the lower lip of Yash, an 11-year-old male captive Royal Bengal Tiger from Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP). “We carried out the surgery on March 18 and removed a 400- gram growth. This was the second time such growth had occurred- the first was removed in August last year and biopsy reports had indicated it to be Granuloma and it was non-cancerous..