Doctors have removed parasites weighing a total of 3kg from the stomach of a young woman in central Turkey in what they have described as a rare case in medicine, Anatolia news agency reported on Wednesday.
Kemal Arslan, the surgeon who operated the 18-year-old patient in Alaca town in the province of Corum, said the size of the parasites varied between 5cm and 20cm and weighed a total of 3kg.
“Normally intestinal parasites are easily treated with drugs, but we had to operate on this patient because her intestines were blocked,” he said.
The woman was recovering well after the surgery, he said. — AFP