A team of Mexican Social Security Institute, or IMSS, doctors removed a 60.2-kilo (132-pound) tumor from a 51-year-old woman’s ovaries, health officials said.
No intra-abdominal tumor this size has been documented before in the world, Moises Aaron Nuñez Gonzalez, director of IMSS Medical Unit No. 26 in the Cabo San Lucas Subzone, told reporters.
The operation was performed last month at a hospital in Cabo San Lucas, a city in Baja California Sur state.
The tumor in the patient, Mercedes Talamantes, began growing five years ago, Nuñez Gonzalez said.
The woman . . .
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