Mumbai Doctors Remove World’s Largest Brain Tumour Weighing 1.8Kg

Doctors in a Mumbai hospital have successfully removed a huge brain tumour weighing 1.873 kilogram from a man from Uttar Pradesh.

The tumour is the largest of its kind to be excised successfully anywhere in the world, said Professor Dr Trimurti D. Nadkarni, Head of Neurosurgery at BYL Nair Charitable Hospital.

The previously know largest brain tumour to be successfully removed weighed 1.40 kg. 

The patient, 31-year-old Santlal Pal, was brought to Mumbai after hospitals in Varanasi and Allahabad refused to admit him claiming that the surgery was too risky as the tumour had protruded his skull.

Upon examination, it was detected that he had a firm scalp swelling of a whopping 30x30x20 cms, which shockingly resembled two heads mounted on top of each other.

Following a series of MRI and CT scans of the brain, a specialised CT angiography was performed to study the blood supply of the massive brain tumour.

Pal underwent the surgery on 14 of February and the five-member team of doctors successfully removed the tumour after a surgery that went on for more than six hours.

"Such large tumours are rare and a surgical challenge. There was a heavy blood loss and this required great team skill in pre-operative monitoring for success," Mr Nadkarni told IANS.