Docs remove giant tumour

In a life-saving operation, doctors at Fortis Hospital, Noida, removed a giant neurogenic tumour — weighing 7 kg — from the chest of a 31-year-old patient in a five-hour-long intervention.

The neurogenic tumour, arising from nerves within the patient’s chest, had grown to an enormous size according to lead surgeon Dr. Vaibhav Mishra. The patient Mayank Nauni came in with symptoms of severe chest pain. The diagnosis revealed a giant neurogenic tumour or posterior mediastinal tumour in the chest, the size of a large coconut.

“Arising from a Spinal nerve root, the tumour had eroded the vertebral body,” said Dr. Mishra. The patient was operated on June 2.

Posterior mediastinal tumours are extremely uncommon and can be hereditary or caused by developmental malformations