In a rare surgery, a seven kg tumour has been removed by a team of doctors from the abdomen of a 45-year-old woman in Thiruvananthapuram. The tumour had pushed her left kidney to the right, stomach and pancreas were pushed up to the anterior abdominal wall and the left descending colon was pushed to the right side. The tumour had pushed her left kidney to the right, stomach and pancreas were pushed up to the anterior abdominal wall and the left descending colon was pushed to the right side, he said. The patient was responding to treatment and recovering, he said, adding, only 186 such tumours have been reported so far the world over. The woman was admitted to the hospital on June 2 with acute stomach pain.

Source: dna June 13, 2016 16:18 UTC