warning: graphic content : Doctors in Pakistan have removed a massive, five stone tumour from a teenager's hip

Muhammad Essa Pallari prior to his operation

Doctors in Pakistan have removed a massive tumour from a teenager's hip - after it grew to more than 5st (70lbs).
The tumour which had left Muhammad Essa Pallari, 18, from Nooriabad in Karachi, Pakistan, completely bedridden was removed by a team of four surgeons in a four-hour long surgery in Karachi's Dr Ruth Pfau Hospital on Wednesday.
Surgeons, who carried out the 'complicated' surgery, were stunned at the size with one confirming it is the biggest he has ever removed from any patient in Pakistan during his career.  


Local officials in Karachi offered to pay for the surgery when they saw his condition on FacebookThe tumour started off the size of a tennis ball
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