Doctors remove 6.5 cm tumour from man's food pipe at Delhi hospital

A 30-year-old man has received a new lease of life after undergoing a challenging surgery for removal of a large tumour from his food pipe at a hospital here, doctors said on Sunday.

The patient was recently admitted at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) with difficulty in swallowing, where, after investigations, doctors found a "large tumour of the size of 6.5 cm", bulging in the food pipe region, they said.

The hospital, in a statement on Sunday, claimed that this was "one of the largest tumours removed endoscopically in India".

According to Anil Arora, chairman, Institute of Liver Gastroenterology and Pancreatico Biliary Sciences, at the hospital, "We recently removed a large submucosal tumour (6.5 cm in size) from the food pipe (oesophageal leiomyoma -- a tumour arising from the muscular layer of oesophagus and protruding into the lumen causing dysphagia) in the 30-year-old male patient".

These types of large tumours are traditionally removed by surgery which has far more morbidity