Doctors remove “world’s largest brain tumor”
In a six hour surgery, doctors in the Sir Gangaram hospital in India have removed what might possibly be the world’s largest brain tumour from the skull of a middle-aged woman.
Review of literature shows that the intracranial tumour measuring 16cmx10cmx8cm is possibly the world’s largest such tumour, Dr. Manish Vaish, part of the neuro-surgery team which carried out the operation told reporters.
The tumour was extending onto both sides of the brain and infiltrating and totally obstructing the main drainage channel of the blood from the brain.
