Mumbai – A team of doctors at Mumbai’s Sion Hospital performed a rare and unexpected surgery as they were forced to remove a 2.5 kg (5.5 pounds) tumour from a 26-year-old pregnant woman during an emergency caesarean operation, a medical team member said Monday.
Though the surgery was performed nearly two months ago, the doctors chose to announce their achievement now, once the patient had completely recovered.
The tumour — the size of a watermelon — remained undetected until the woman was brought to the hospital for a caesarean section.
“This is the first case in the country in which such a huge ovarian tumour has been removed during an emergency caesarian section operation,” Dr. Niranjan Chavan, with the hospital’s department of obstetrics & gynaecology, told IANS.
The woman – who works as domestic help in Vikhroli suburb – was in labour with a high pulse rate when she was brought to Sion Hospital June 15 from a private nursing home. She was immediately taken to surgery.
