18 kg tumour removed from a 17- year-old girl's stomach

Saudi doctors removed an 18-kg tumour from the
abdomen of a 17-year-old local girl after she was
admitted to hospital with severe pain, Emirate 24/7
reports. Officials at the government hospital in the
Western town of Makkah that image scans showed
the mass, measuring 30 by 25cm, spread from the
upper abdomen down to the pelvis.



"It weighed nearly 18 kg, almost a third of the
girl's weight and caused sharp pain to her. The
mass was removed successfully without any
complications to the patient." Dr. Hilal Al Malki, a
doctor at the hospital revealed.



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