Doctors in India recently removed an 800 gram tumour from a three-year-old Afghan boy\u2019s chest. The surgery has given the child a new lease of life.<\/p>\n
As per the doctors of Delhi\u2019s Jeewan Hospital who carried out the surgery, the tumor had compressed the whole right lung of the boy who weighed only 10 kilograms. \u201cBecause of the tumour, which extended from the back vertebra to the chest ribs, his right lung had totally collapsed and it was creating pressure even on the heart,\u201d said Dr Vipender Sabherwal, the hospital\u2019s Director.<\/p>\n
The doctors claimed that though the boy has been taken by his father to multiple hospitals in Afghanistan, none of them actually took him up due to the high risk.<\/p>\n
The lung\u2019s right side that was invisible on X-Ray<\/strong><\/p>\n When the Indian doctors carried out the investigations, the right side of the child\u2019s lung wasn\u2019t even visible on the X-Ray scans. As per the doctors the surgery was challenging since direct risk existed for the heart and lung.<\/p>\n \u201cHe could have bled to death on the table. This while the operation was going on blood was being transfused continuously,\u201d Dr Sabherwal said.<\/p>\n In the course of the six-hours long surgery, the doctors removed the whole tumor which was stuck to the back bone as well as the lungs and interior ribs.<\/p>\n \u201cThe miraculous part was that once the tumour was removed, the lung started expanding and after 13 hours it became normal,\u201d said Dr Mohit Mathur, one of the surgeons in the operating team.<\/p>\n The doctors said that the tumour has been sent for biopsy so that it could be ascertained if it\u2019s malignant.<\/p>\n Many major media publications have carried the story.<\/p>\n Image credits: hindustantimes.com<\/em><\/p>\n Images may be representative<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Doctors in India recently removed an 800 gram tumour from a three-year-old Afghan boy\u2019s chest. The surgery has given the child a new lease of life. As per the doctors of Delhi\u2019s Jeewan Hospital who carried out the surgery, the tumor had compressed the whole right lung of the boy who weighed only 10 kilograms. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n