Record-breaking operation at the Molinette hospital in Turin, where doctors removed a tumor weighing over 70 kilos from a young woman.
"It had never been so big," commented the surgeons who performed the surgery.
The woman had arrived at the emergency room in very serious conditions: the benign ovarian tumor had spread so far in her body that it completely filled her abdomen until her lungs were compressed.
The patient suffered from respiratory insufficiency, risked dying from the compression that the tumor mass exerted on the lungs and other organs. The state of health was so serious that, after being intubated, the woman was subjected to mechanical ventilation, to the resuscitation of the emergency room.
The medical teams then planned the interventions: the first - carried out by the team of Doctor Ezio Falletto of University Emergency Surgery 1, directed by Professor Mario Morino - consisted in the aspiration of the cystic portion of the benign tumor, during which they were collected a total of 52 liters of liquid material.
The drainage of the cysts made it possible to extubate the patient and make her pass the first critical phase. After the outcome of the computed tomography, a delicate surgery was carried out to remove the cystadenoma of the ovary weighing about 25 kilos, an operation carried out by Doctor Francesco Moro of the University Surgery 2, directed by Professor Renato Romagnoli.
The operation was technically successful and after only 4 days the young woman was transferred from the intensive care unit to the surgery department and then transferred to the dietetics and clinical nutrition department to begin the rehabilitation period.
(Unioneonline / lf)
