An 18-year-old Peruvian girl has successfully undergone an operation in which they removed a gigantic tumor of 20 kilos and one meter high.
The patient, Andrea Álvarez, had a very bulging abdomen and, at first, her family thought it was due to “overweight”. However, a medical examination discovered that it was actually a huge tumor and Andrea had to be operated on urgently.
the complicated operation lasted more than three hours and took place on February 23 at the Regional Neoplastic Institute (IREN center). The doctors who participated in the intervention later explained that the size of the tumor “was similar to the abdomen of a pregnant woman with twins.”
Successful operation carried out by IREN Centro on an 18-year-old girl! A tumor weighing 20 kilos and 1 meter high was removed from a patient from Pangoa in the Central Selva, the size of the tumor covered the entire abdomen similar to that of a pregnant woman with twins, They wrote on social media.
The doctor Danilo Baltazar, subspecialist in oncological gynecology at IREN Centrohas pointed out that, after extraction, “the giant abdominal pelvic tumor with cystic and solid areas was sent for pathological studies”.
