Yahoo! News - Doctors remove 50 lb tumour Sun Mar 30,11:06 AM ET
CAIRO (Reuters) - Doctors say they have removed a tumour weighing about 50 lb from a patient's stomach in the northern Egyptian town of Damietta.
Mamdouh Eissa, a 51-year-old government employee, had suffered from a large swelling in his stomach for several years, and went to Damietta's tumour institute because of sharp pains.
"He looked something like a full-term pregnant woman carrying twins," Osama al-Malt, the institute's director who led the team of surgeons that performed the operation, told Reuters on Sunday.
He said the tumour, 35-40 centimetres (14-16 inches) long and 25 cm wide, was the largest he had seen in a male patient. He said it was not yet clear whether the tumour had been malignant.
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