The “gigantic tumor” removed from a mother of 8 children: she hit her head two years ago and the lesion developed “rapidly and disproportionately”

A group of doctors managed to remove a giant tumor growing on a woman’s head in Maracaibo, the capital of Zulia state, Venezuela.

The patient is a modest 37-year-old woman, mother of 8 children, living in Mara, one of the three municipalities in the north of the above-mentioned state.

The operation was performed on Thursday, October 12, 2023 at the Maracaibo University Hospital (HUM). The intervention lasted three hours.

Why did such a large tumor appear?

The HUM announced the results of the operation last weekend. The procedure was undoubtedly very complex, announced the Autonomous Service of the University Hospital of Maracaibo.

“The total removal of a tumor in the head, of extraordinary proportions, was achieved in patient Yolenis Montiel,” they announced via their social networks.

Sumaya González, daughter of Yolenis, indicated that two years ago her mother hit her head and a tumor formed where she was injured.

Dr. Eduar Sarmiento, from the HUM Neurosurgery Service, said that after hitting herself, the 37-year-old woman “showed an increase in the volume of her left parietal region.”

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“It was an accelerated increase that led to a tumor lesion; during the operation, a total resection of that lesion was performed, which was highly vascularized,” he explained.

Images released by the health center show the impressive size of the tumor Yolenis Montiel has been living with for the past two years.

“We don’t know its conformation until we get the result of the biopsy of that tissue,” the surgeon said.

I’m happy, says the woman who had surgery

The patient “successfully emerged from the operating room and is recovering.” In the video, the mother of eight said: “Thank you to all the doctors.”

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The patient went home the day after surgery. “I am very grateful to the medical team that operated on me. “I am happy that I can return home to my family,” said El Pitazo, the woman from Zulia who “freed herself” from the impressive tumor that she had been battling with for two years.

“Thanks to everyone who operated on her, my mother is doing well,” celebrated Sumaya González.

(JO)