Doctor removes over 1 foot size and 7.5 kgs abdominal tumour

Doctors at a hospital here have removed large tumour mass of more than one foot size even bigger than a size of football in from the abdomen of a 58-year old male patient who has visited the hospital with heaviness and distension of abdomen more on the right side of abdomen.

The patient was investigated at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital where doctors noted a very large abdominal mass in the right side of the abdomen reportedly as a large predominantly fat containing mass with multiple enhancing soft tissue component and septations displacing the right kidney & liver upwards and pancreas and adjacent small intestinal loops towards the extreme left side of abdomen. The findings were suggestive of retroperitoneal liposarcoma.

Anticipating the criticality of the surgery of such a huge mass and the challenges not to damage the the inferior vena cava and preserving right kidney and large bowel, the surgical team headed by Dr Manish K Gupta, Vice chairman & Senior Laparoscopic & Gen Surgeon, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi took the decision to operate the patient and keeping the Vascular Surgical team standby comprising of Dr Ajay Yadav and Dr Dhruv Agarwal. The successful surgery lasted for 8 hours.

A large retroperitoneal mass of size 37 X 23 X 16 cm weighing 7.5 kgs was taken out and sent for biopsy. Any tumour of more than 30 cm in size comes into the category of Giant retroperitoneal mass and is quite rare. Patient was shifted to post op ICU after the surgery. After 3 days patient was shifted to room where he recovered well and got discharged from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital after 7 days of surgery.