Cairo - Doctors said on Sunday they had removed a tumour weighing about 23kg from a patient's stomach in the northern Egyptian town of Damietta.
Mamdouh Eissa, a 51-year-old government employee, had suffered from a large swelling in his stomach for several years, and went to Damietta's tumour institute because of sharp pains.
"He looked something like a full-term pregnant woman carrying twins," said Osama al-Malt, the institute's director who led the team of surgeons during the operation.
The tumour, 40cm long and 25cm wide, was the largest he had seen in a male patient.
It was not yet clear whether the tumour had been malignant, he added. - Reuters