She had a tumor of half a meter and she thought that she would be fattening Society

Patients from the Belgrade neighborhood abducted an expert team of MMA with an 18 kilogram liposarcum. She had no problem except that her stomach began to grow

TUMOR weighing 18 kilograms, half a meter in diameter and 20 centimeters in thickness, was removed from the abdomen of D & M. A woman of fifty, teacher in a high school in Belgrade. A complex surgical procedure for ablation of liposarcomas was performed at the Military Medical Academy ten days ago, and the patient was in good health Tuesday morning for home treatment

Although the tumor develops rapidly, metastases on other organs. was resolved by an intervention that lasted three and a half hours. According to the doctors, the patient did not doubt the problem until the detailed diagnosis was made.

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– A culturally, beautiful and educated patient she had no other problem except that her stomach began to grow at a high speed. She thought that she started growing up and started running and exercising twice a day to lose weight. Only a regular gynecological examination has been noticed that there is some problem – says prof. Dr. Bratislav Trifunović, specialist in general surgery and team leader who performed the surgery

After the diagnosis, it was felt that a surgical procedure was necessary in order not to "tumble" the tumor , which could be fatal.

The intervention meant that she had bypassed the pancreas, liver, kidneys, stomach and reached the tumor, which was close to the spine. We took care not to injure any body or aorta, because in 65% of cases, such interventions lead to life-threatening haemorrhage. In addition, the capsule of the tumor had to be kept, so that the content would not be distributed – explains Prof. Trifunović

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In addition to Professor Trifunović, who underwent more than 15,000 surgeries, Dr. Boško Milev, Assistant Professor Milan Jovanović, Zivorad Kocevski, Anesthetist Aleksandar Ristanovic and instrumentalists Marijana Bugarcic and Jasmina Mitrovic. In addition, the team that made the urologists and vascular surgeons also had to be ready all the time, if necessary, and their intervention.

– This is the fifth case of this type of tumor that we operated on the MMA. This is not often the chance to grow a liposarcoma on the stomach is one to two million – says Professor Trifunović.

Although this type of malignancy rarely occurs, it is characterized by various symptoms that are not usually expressed at the onset of the disease. At first, patients experience no pain, but as the disease progresses, nausea and vomiting, painful islets, numbness, and abdominal pain may occur.

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In September 2016, the doctors of Banja Luka, Stoj Popovic (52 years old), from the village of Branesci, took an ovarian tumor weighing up to 31 kilograms of blood. 39; abdomen. The team that performed the intervention said they did not encounter a similar case in their career. The operation lasted four hours and there were up to eleven people in the team.