A woman’s ‘fat belly’ that was initially blamed on her overeating turned out to be a 17lb tumour.
Thai woman Ratchanaporn, 31, lived with a massive ovarian cyst growing inside her foe years on end, utterly unaware of its existence.
She and her family assumed that she was simply overweight due to her eating habits, until she began struggling to breathe.
After being taken to Satun Hospital, southern Thailand, by her mother, doctors quickly found a massive 30cm-wide cyst that was pressing on her internal organs.
Ratchanaporn’s mother said: ‘My baby was experiencing tightness, difficulty breathing, and bulging eyes. Her stomach looked like she was pregnant with twins.
‘She’d had a swollen belly for so long, but we thought it was because she ate too much. We never imagined it was something this serious.’
It took doctors six hours to take out the massive tumour, due to its size and the complexity of the operation,
But the operation, carried out on 31 July, appeared to be a success. The 17lb mass was taken out, along with other tissue samples for further testing.
A woman’s ‘fat belly’ that was initially blamed on her overeating turned out to be a 17lb tumour
Before the surgery, Ratchanaporn reportedly weighed 86kg. After the cysta was removed, she weighed 75kg and said she felt far lighter and more comfortable.
Though Ratachanporn’s cyst was large, it was dwarfed by a cyst removed from a 24-year-old woman that weighed five stone.
The unnamed woman, from Mexico, noticed she was gaining weight despite being on a diet.
But scans later revealed she was suffering from an ovarian cyst which grew ferociously over 11 months.
By the time of surgery it had a density of five stone and put her at risk of heart failure as it crushed her internal organs, meaning she had problems walking, breathing and eating.
Dr. Erik Hanson Viana at Mexico’s General Hospital performed pioneering surgery to remove the cyst – believed to be the biggest-ever removed whole.
Six months later, the patient has regained mobility and returned to a normal life.
Dr. Hanson, from Mexico City, said: ‘This is the biggest cyst I have operated on, it was so large that it took up 95% of the patient’s abdomen. It’s really rare to operate on a cyst this big, it measured half a metre in diameter and the circumference was 157 cm.
‘From all the research I’ve found, this is the largest ovarian cyst ever to be removed whole without draining it first or spilling it.’
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