Saudi doctors have successfully removed a tumour weighing 18-kg from the abdomen of a 17-year-old
local girl following her admission in the hospital for severe abdominal pain, Emirate
24/7 reports.
Officials at the government hospital in the Western town of Makkah that
image scans showed the mass, measuring 30 by 25cm, spread from the upper
abdomen down to the pelvis.
"It weighed nearly 18 kg, almost a third of the girl’s weight and caused
sharp pain to her. The mass was removed successfully without any
complications to the patient." Dr. Hilal Al Malki, a doctor at the
hospital revealed. 
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