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It was the largest ovarian mucinous canada goose outlet shop tumor Andikyan had ever encountered, benignonly canada goose black friday sale in canada goose canadian goose jacket outlet uk sale the medical sense of the word. It didn’t take the gynecologic oncologist long to recognize the growth for what uk canada goose it really was: Canada Goose sale A death sentence.
“Without appropriate treatment, I don’t think this canada goose outlet toronto factory woman wouldhave madeanother couple of weeks,” Andikyan, a doctor at the Western https://www.canadagoosejackets7v.com Connecticut Health canada goose coats Network, told The Washington Post. “She came to my office in a wheelchair accompanied Canada Goose online by her mom Canada Goose Online and her son and I saw fear in her canada goose outlet reviews eyes.”
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Andikyan and Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, where the surgery was performed, did not release the patient’s canada goose uk shop name or other identifying information at her request.
Complicating things for the woman: The tumor was canada goose uk black friday growing. The bigger Canada Goose Coats On Sale it got, the faster it grew. And by February, buy canada goose jacket cheap it was adding about Canada Goose Outlet 10 pounds of mass a week.
There have been larger ovarian mucinous tumors, including canada goose outlet new york city a 303 pound mass that left a woman bedridden before it was resected in 1994, but the doctors at Danbury had only read about a handful canada goose outlet black friday of such buy canada goose jacket extreme uk canada goose outlet cases canada goose coats on sale in medical journals.
Every day, their patient’s risk grew along with her tumor. So doctorsscheduled the canada goose outlet nyc surgery for Feb. 14 about two weeks after the initial consultation and raced to canada goose black friday sale plan a complex procedure in time to save the patient.
Exhaustive pre canada goose outlet surgery planning was necessary “because there canada goose outlet uk were many unknowns and hurdles to address,” the hospital said in a statement. The scans could only tell the team of specialists so much, and there were myriad problems that could crop up once the patient was opened up in the specially formatted surgical room.
In canada goose outlet online uk two weeks, Andikyan’s team had developed canada goose clearance plans for five life threatening scenarios.
“You don’t want to figure out steps on the fly,” he told The Post.
Overseeing it all, Andikyan worried about the patient’s blood Canada Goose Parka circulation. The tumor rested on a major artery that pumped blood to the canada goose outlet sale legs. The hospital placed a cardiothoracic surgeon on standby in case things soured.
One complication cropped up early: The patient’s blood pressure cheap canada goose uk dropped, and had to be stabilized.
After that, the biggest task lay ahead of them: removing 132 pounds of aviscoustumor.
Andikyan told The Post that the tumor originated in the epithelial cells lining the woman’s ovary. It’s called “mucinous” because the tumor cells produce a gelatinlike substance.
Most Canada Goose Outlet such tumors are benign, but pathologists rushed canada goose jacket outlet to biopsy the cellsand verified that it wasn’t cancerous.
It wasn’t. And doctors had more good news: They were able to save the woman’s uterus and one of her official canada goose outlet ovaries. She told doctors that she wants to have another child, and with her uterus intact, she’ll be able to do so.
In fact, Andikyan said her outlook is excellent: The tumor was not Canada Goose Jackets malignant, all of it is gone, and canada goose outlet store there is not a large chance that canada goose outlet online it canada goose uk outlet will come back.
After five hours, one of the biggest surgeries of Andikyan’s career was a success. And he could see the once fearful woman who was wheeled into an canada goose store examination roomgetting canada goose stronger every day.