23 KILO TUMOR REMOVED FROM WOMAN'S ABDOMEN

Bulgarian surgeons removed a giant tumor that weighed 23 kilograms (50.7 pounds) from a woman's abdomen on Monday, likening the curious case to something out of an old medical textbook.

The 67-year-old patient was hospitalized with complications and high temperature after a flu. But doctors from the university obstetrics and gynecology hospital in Sofia discovered that a giant mass was squeezing a number of vital organs.

"We removed a 23-kilo tumor, which is the size of a seven- or eight-year-old child," surgeon Bozhidar Slavchev said in a hospital statement.

The woman told the doctors she had known about the tumor for some 20 years now but was afraid to undergo surgery.

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