The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on September 09, 2018, 03:04:10 pm
-
Pumpkin-Size 'Giant' Fibroid Removed from Woman's Uterus
By Cari Nierenberg September 7, 2018 03:30pm ET
Doctors in Singapore successfully removed a so-called giant uterine fibroid weighing about 61 lbs. (28 kilograms) from a 53-year-old woman's abdomen, according to a new report of the case.
Medically speaking, a fibroid earns the descriptor "giant" when it weighs in at 25 lbs. (11 kg). In the woman's case, however, the mass tipped the scales at more than double that weight.
https://www.livescience.com/63524-giant-fibroid-surgery.html (https://www.livescience.com/63524-giant-fibroid-surgery.html)