A team of doctors removed a giant-sized tumor from a woman during emergency surgery on Wednesday at a hospital in Rio de
A team of doctors removed a giant-sized tumor from a woman during emergency surgery on Wednesday at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro. The 45-year-old patient had been living with the tumor for five years, according to Dr. Glaucio Boechat, who revealed images of the tumor on his social media accounts. It took doctors two hours to remove the 100-pound mass that hung over the midsection of the woman, who is 4 feet and nine inches tall and was weighing 330 pounds at the time of the operation. It’s unknown why the tumor had not been previously removed. Dr. Glaucio Boechat poses with the tumor that was removed from a 45-year-old woman at São José do Avai Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday took a team of 14 staff members of the medical team to remove the 100-pound tumor during a two-hour operation At least 14 doctors were involved in the surgery to remove the lump. The cost of the operation is covered by the medical facility and Brazil’s publicly funded health system. While ...