A 132-pound tumor was successfully removed from a woman's ovary after the patient realized she had rapidly gained weight over a two-month period.
The huge mucinous ovarian tumor doctors removed from the 38-year-old woman was benign, Danbury Hospital in Connecticut said on Thursday. The woman sought medical treatment in February, telling doctors she had been gaining about 10 pounds per week.
"I might expect to see a 25-pound ovarian tumor, but a 132-pound tumor is very rare," said Dr. Vaagn Andikyan, a gynecologic oncologist and assistant professor at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine.
"When I met the patient, she was extremely malnourished because the tumor was sitting on her digestive tract, and she used a wheelchair because of the tumor's weight. I wanted to help her, and I knew that we could at Danbury Hospital," Andikyan said.
CNN reported a medical team that included 12 surgeons removed the tumor in a five-hour procedure on Feb. 14.
"During the surgery, we removed this gigantic tumor that originated from her left ovary," Andikyan told CNN. "We removed her left ovary, her left (fallopian) tube, and we removed the affected peritoneal tissue that was adhering to the ovary."
Andikyan said that while ovarian mucinous tumors tend to be big, this woman's tumor "may be in the top 10 or 20 tumors of this size removed worldwide."
The largest tumor ever removed from a human was a 303-pound ovarian tumor removed at Stanford Hospital in 1991, per CNN.
"There were a lot of issues related to this very large tumor in the abdomen," Dr. Linus Chuang, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology for Western Connecticut Health Network, who was involved in the case, told CNN.
"She was at very high risk of developing blood clots because of compression of the blood flow," Chuang said.
The tumor was removed, excess skin was removed and her abdomen restructured, the hospital said.
Pathologists conducted genetic tests on the tumor to try to understand how and why it grew so quickly and so large, the hospital noted.
"Luckily, she did not require any additional treatment," Andikyan told CNN. "She's back to a normal life, she's back to work, and when I saw her in my office, I saw smiles, I saw hope, and I saw a happy woman who is back to her normal life and her family."
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