In the Sverdlovsk region, surgeons removed a 67-year-old patient from a large benign tumor with which he lived for 50 years. It has been reported press office regional government.
The Russian woman was taken to the regional clinical hospital because of the lipoma she formed at the age of 17. It turned out that the tumor arose after the removal of a dysfunctional kidney.
Recently, the neoplasm began to bother the pensioner: because of this, part of the woman’s organs moved to another part of the body. In addition, doctors determined the risk of the tumor turning into a malignant one.
As a result, the doctors decided to remove the lipoma and successfully operated on the elderly patient. The weight of the removed neoplasm was about three kilograms.
“When I woke up after the surgery, I had the feeling that it didn’t exist, I felt very good,” said the Russian woman.
Earlier it became known that the doctors of the children’s hospital in the city in Shymkent (Kazakhstan) are in the clinic. extracted from the brain of a small worm patient.