Medical team led by American-Armenian surgeon removed a patient’s 60 kilo ovarian tumour

A 38-year-old American woman whose benign ovarian tumour grew 4.5 kilograms a week over the course of two months is expected to make a full recovery after doctors removed the 60-kilo mass from her abdomen on February 14, according to press release from Western Connecticut Health Network. It was one of the largest known ovarian tumours, the Thursday release noted.

The five-hour surgery, which was conducted at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, involved a 25-person medical team led by Dr. Vaagn Andikyan, M.D., a board-certified gynecologic oncologist at Western Connecticut Medical Group and assistant professor at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine.

In addition to extracting the mass, doctors removed the woman's left ovary and six pounds of excess tissue and skin stretched by the growth, before reconstructing her abdomen.
"I might expect to see a 25-pound ovarian tumour, but a 132-pound tumour is very rare," Dr. Vaagn Andikyan told CNN, adding Danbury Hospital is still conducting tests to explain the rapid growth of the tumour, which was filled with a gelatin-like substance.