They remove a benign ovarian tumor weighing more than 70 kilos from an Italian woman in Turin

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was removed thanks to a double operation performed at the Molinette hospital in Turin (northwestern Italy) on an Italian woman who weighed less than the removed mass.

As reported today by the Turin hospital, in the medical literature

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The woman went to the emergency room a few weeks ago because she had serious

and, after a series of tests, the doctors confirmed that the insufficiency was due to a huge expansive abdominal formation of a benign nature.

The situation immediately seemed very serious;

The woman, in fact, was at risk of dying from the

and other organs.

"The tumor occupied the entire belly of the patient up to her lungs, so much so that she was not breathing," they explained.

"It was

, but we are all very satisfied since the woman is doing very well now and the recovery was very fast," explained Dr. Francesco Moro, who participated in the intervention.

The woman went from a volume of 150 kilograms

in a few days , corresponding to her weight, according to the hospital.

Initially, surgery was performed to aspirate the liquid part of the tumor collected inside a

.

"An essential step to be able to proceed with the en bloc removal of the ovarian cystadenoma of about 25 kilos in a second operation," added Moro.

Only 4 days after the second operation, the woman was transferred from resuscitation to the surgery service and

Clinical Nutrition service because "she had to be put on her feet and made to gain seven kilos," they explained.

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