It was a tumour that weighed a whopping 1.873 kgs.
In a rare and complicated surgery, doctors at a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) hospital have successfully extricated the brain tumour from a 31-year-old blind man from Uttar Pradesh.
It is the largest of its kind to be excised successfully anywhere in the world, said Professor and Head of Neurosurgery at BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Dr Trimurti D. Nadkarni.