Chinese surgeons have removed the patient is a 45-pound tumor

Doctors of the Central Hospital of Guangdong announced today the successful operation to remove a huge tumor, weighing up to 45 kg. The operation lasted more than 9 hours. 36-year-old woman who suffers from multiple neurofibromatosis, said that there is a tumor in the right buttock years more than 20. For several years it has not accelerated over the size of an egg, but then they grow. In the end, she lost the ability to move independently. In the past two years has poor bedridden, all the time courting her younger sister. Likewise disease patients suffering mother, who died in 1990. Multiple neurofibromatosis, a serious hereditary disease caused by the development of benign tumors of the peripheral nerve membranes. Tumors reach enormous size, dramatically alter the appearance of the person. According to the chief surgeon of the hospital Guansyanya Guangdong Huang (Huang Guangxiang), due to the large size of the tumor was the same operation is performed only two groups of physicians. Mr. Guansyan also be noted that. The weight of the mass of the removal of tumors of the body of the patient after the operation Note that known to medicine and more spectacular cases of neurofibromatosis. Especially a few years ago, when a group of American surgeon McKay McKinnon, a resident of Romania led an operation to remove a tumor weighing 76 kg, and in the early 90's, Dr. McKinnon successfully removed the 90 pound neurofibromas.