Enormous tumour removed from Indian man's headSUPPLIED The man is understood to have lived with the tumour for three years. Indian surgeons have removed a 1.87-kilogram brain tumour from a 31-year-old man. "The tumour was so big, it appeared there was another head mounted on top of the patient's head," Srikanth Balasubramaniam, a senior surgeon who was part of the operating team said by phone from Mumbai. READ MORE:* Child 'looked too healthy' to have a brain tumour* Optometrist reprimanded after giving glasses to child with tumour* Huge tumour slowly suffocating child"The surgery was challenging because of the sheer size of the tumour and because there were huge arteries going into the tumour." The tumour had made Pal lose his vision and had also rendered him anaemic.

Source: Stuff February 23, 2018 07:41 UTC