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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