Doctors in Poland have removed a cyst weighing almost a hundred kilograms from a patient. The fluid-filled cavity had formed on an ovary of the 24-year-old woman, said the university hospital in the southeastern Polish city of Rzeszow on Thursday. "The operated tumor had a diameter of about one meter," said the doctor Anna Bogaczyk from the gynecology department.

According to the hospital, the woman had arrived at the clinic a week ago. With a height of 1.58 meters, she weighed 182 kilos. The examinations were very difficult because the patient did not fit into the CT scanner because of her enormous abdominal circumference. "As a team of doctors, we only knew roughly what we were dealing with," said Tomasz Kluz, head of gynecology.

During the operation, doctors drained about a hundred liters of fluid, after which they removed the cyst. They did not find any other pathological changes in the pelvis or abdomen. The patient stated that she did not dare to go to the clinic earlier out of fear.