Woman’s suspected pregnancy turns out to be 11-pound tumor
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A woman in Romania who believed she was pregnant arrived at the hospital to learn she was not carrying a baby in her womb but rather an 11-pound tumor, Central European News (CEN) reported.
Surgeons from Botosani County Hospital, in northern Romania, performed an emergency operation on the woman, 42-year-old Madalina Neagu, who arrived at the hospital because she thought she was in labor.
“The size of her belly was quite similar to that of a nine-month pregnant woman, so we didn't have any reason to doubt what she told us,” Dr. Dorin Scladan, 47, told CEN.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Scladan and Dr. Camelia Todica, 43, removed the tumor from Neagu then transferred her to intensive care for recovery.
Scladan said the tumor size and location were rare. “It was a record tumor for the region at all in the past 15 years,” Scladan told the news station.