New Delhi: A 59-year-old HIV-positive patient from Kenya received a new rental of life after a private hospital in a private hospital managed to remove the tumor with the severity of his kidney.
This operation takes eight and a half hours, and the doctor at the hospital claims that a 40cm / 30cm tumor, is “the largest kidney tumor removed in India to date” according to the recorded literature.
Tumor, “greater than the size of a normal laptop, is very large so that it takes almost all space in the patient’s stomach”, making it a challenging case for a doctor, because it is also a positive condition of HIV, the doctor said.
The operation took place in December at Max Super Specialty Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, said a hospital spokesman.
A team of doctors led by Dr.
Archit Pandit, Director of Associates, Surgical Oncology and Dr.
Vineet Goel, Association Consultants, Surgical Oncology, in hospitals, removing tumors through “open abdominal surgery,” the hospital authority said.
According to available medical literature and published paper, before this case, the largest kidney tumor removed in India was at Sir Ganga Ram hospital in Delhi in 2017, and weighed 7.
4 kg.