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29 March 2024

900 gm tumor removed from 18-month-old baby

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Saudi doctors spent nearly six hours to remove a 900 gm tumor inside an 19-month-old girl who had the mass in the form of a twin baby.

Doctors at the public hospital in the southern province of Asir said the surgery was one of the most difficult operations but ended without complications.

“It was a difficult operation which can be done only at specialized centres…our doctors had to be careful because the tumor was stuck to the liver and arteries and it penetrated the chest through the diaphragm,” said Dr Fouad Idris, general manager of the Asir central hospital.

He said the tumor mass was a twin girl and contained the bones of the pelvis, the hip and the shoulder as well as one of the lumbar spine and teeth, and other tissues. “It was a fetus inside a fetus…the operation was successful and the patient was discharged six days later,” he told the Saudi Sharq newspaper.