A tumor weighing more than 70 kg, a size never before seen in the medical literature. The ovarian cancer removal surgery was performed at the Molinette hospital in Turin, and it quickly made headlines in scientific publications from France to South America. According to City of Health reports, "the tumor filled the patient's entire belly up to the lungs, so that she could not breathe." The young woman, who weighed less than the tumor mass removed, underwent double surgery to remove the cancer: the first urgent operation (the patient arrived in serious condition at the Turin hospital's emergency room, requiring intubation) consisted in aspiration of the cystic portion of the lesion. Once the critical phase was over, CT diagnostics revealed the abdominal expansive formation, convincing doctors to perform a bloc removal of the 25 kg neoformation (cystadenoma of the ovary). After only four days in the hospital, the young woman was transferred from intensive care to the surgical ward, then to the dietetics and clinical nutrition ward, before being discharged and returning home.
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