A Kuwaiti medical team at Al Adan Hospital successfully removed a tumour weighing 6 kilogrammes from the uterus of a Kuwaiti woman.
The patient, who is in her fifties, was admitted to the hospital after suffering from acute pulmonary artery pressure, according to Al Qabas newspaper.
“The woman has been suffering for years from a swollen abdomen due to uterine fibroid; non-cancerous growth of the uterus that often appear during childbearing years”, said obstetrics and gynaecology consultant Dr Ibtissam Gadanfar.