• About 191 benign tumors were removed from a 34-year-old woman from Oman at Starcare Hospital, Kerala.
  • Claiming it to be a world record, the doctors at the hospital said that previously a similar case was recorded with an Egyptian woman who had 186 tumors removed.
  • According to the chief gynecologist Dr. Abdul Rashid, the four hour long surgery involved a blend of keyhole and traditional techniques in which neither the ovaries nor the uterus was removed.
  • Though the team of three doctors speculated a number of 80 tumors, during the procedure they found out the other hurdred and eleven. 
  • The patient's condition is now stable with her uterus and ovaries unaffected.    

 

Source: Starcare Hospital, Kerala, Media Update