A urologist is under investigation after he amputated a patient's penis because of a non-existent tumour. Picture shows the San Donato hospital in Arezzo, Italy, where the surgery took place, undated. A 30-year-old doctor performed the amputation of the penis on a man, born in 1954, even after examinations showed…
Shocked surgeons have removed a massive tumour from an 18-year-old girl's stomach after her parents thought she was putting on weight. Picture shows the 20 kilograme tumour on Andrea Alvarez, 18, and the medical team during the removal, undated. She had a tumour that covered her entire abdomen, similar to…
Astonished surgeons in Turkey have removed a five-and-a-half-stone tumour from a woman's abdomen in a gruelling, two-hour-long operation. Doctors pose with a mass taken out from the abdomen of a patient in Tekirdag, Turkey, undated photo. The mass reportedly weighed about 35 kilogrammes. (Newsflash) The unnamed woman, aged 40, had…
Doctors have successfully removed more than 90 per cent of a small child’s brain tumour after his parents were told it was inoperable and he was flown from Mexico to Spain for an emergency procedure. Oliver Romero poses in an undated photo. Oliver, the Malaga-born boy who needs urgent surgery…
Surgeons have removed an astonishing 46-kilogramme tumour from a woman who thought she'd just been putting on weight. The tumour - about the same weight as a small person - was cut out during an emergency op on the 45-year-old patient, who is just 1.45 metres (4'9") tall. Before the…
