Indian surgeons have successfully operated on a patient with the largest officially reported brain tumor. The tumor has grown so large because the patient did not go to doctors earlier, considering the tumor inoperable and already simply resigned to the fact that he would die from it.
The malignant tumor weighed 1.8 kg. A 31-year-old Indian named Santlal Pal has been "growing" it for three years. As a result, the tumor grew so large that it seemed that the man was growing a second head over the first.
Doctors at a clinic in Mumbai removed the tumor in an extremely difficult seven-hour operation. It was the largest tumor reported at this hospital and the most severe brain tumor in the world.
As a result of a unique and difficult operation, the patient managed not only to survive, but also to recover, despite 11 blood transfusions and three days spent under a life support apparatus.
He was lucky that his brain activity was not disturbed by the tumor and the operation. The first results of improving the man's condition are already visible, his eyesight has improved, which has been badly damaged due to a tumor. Before the operation, the man was practically blind.
It is reported that the patient is recovering steadily, he is allowed regular meals and is now on outpatient treatment.
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Previously, the most severe brain tumor that was also safely removed by surgeons was considered to be 3 lb (1.3 kg).