A medical team has finally removed a tumor weighing five kilograms from the liver of a patient at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah. The head of the surgery department at the College of Medicine and the head of the medical team, Dr. Saleh bin Muhammad al-Dagal, said: The patient is 72 years old, and he suffers from severe abdominal pain with frequent vomiting and the inability to eat as a result of the tumor pressure on the stomach.
Al-Dagal indicated that the patient lost nearly 30 kilograms of weight in three months, stressing that after the tests were conducted, it became clear that the patient suffers from a large tumor in the liver. The head of the medical team stated that a rare and complicated surgery that specialists considered lasted six hours and ended with the eradication of the tumor and the left part of the liver, stressing that this operation used advanced mechanisms and was not performed in advanced scientific centers. The surgery was performed by a consultant and assistant professor of surgery, Dr. Adel Johari, Dr. Abdul-Malik Atf, assistant professor of surgery, teaching assistant in the surgery department, Dr. Muhammad Basindawa, anesthesiologist Dr. Nouf Al-Otaibi, anesthesiologist Dr. Yasser Ibrahim and operating nurse Reem Qumsani.
