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Gigantic 4.9 Kg Uterus Removed Using Keyhole Surgery
Dr Hafeez Rahman |
A team of surgeons from Kochi-based Sunrise Institute of Medical
Sciences (SIMS), led by Dr Hafeez Rahman, has successfully removed the world's
largest uterus (womb) weighing a giant 4.9 kilogram from the abdomen of a 49-year-old
woman using keyhole surgery.
According to hospital authorities, this uterus is the world's
biggest one operated upon compared to previous record of 3.2 kg as listed in
the Guinness Book of World Record.
According to Dr Hafeez, "We believe that this was perhaps the heaviest
uterus removed and so we have decided to send the details of it and the surgery
for entry into the Limca and Guinness book of World Records."
Surgeon Dr Hafeez, giving details of the surgery, said, this
kind of uterus in a woman's abdomen was rare. The pathological examination revealed
it to be case of fibroid, a non-cancerous tumour of the uterus. The doctors
had to conduct an operation called 'laparoscopic hysterectomy' to get rid of
the uterus of the patient. The huge uterus was removed in a record 28 minutes
with minimal blood loss. The patient was earlier denied laparoscopic surgery
by other medical institutes before she was successfully operated upon at the
Sunrise Hospital.
EH News Bureau
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