Fifty Six-year-old Shanta Sosa, a resident of Tardeo, recently underwent a surgery at Mumbai's iconic Bhatia Hospital for an extremely rare condition called chylous mesenteric cyst. The woman was experiencing very heavy uteral bleeding which led her to visit a local gynaecologist. A routine ultrasound revealed that there was a cystic tumour near her pancreas and the gynaecologist referred her to Dr Kamlesh Khandelwal, Laproscopic Surgeon, at Bhatia Hospital. The gynaecologist was of the opinion that the tumour needs to be taken care of first following which she could perform a hysterectomy.

Upon further investigations, Dr Khandelwal found that the tumour was about 6 cm in diameter and was not arising from either the pancreas or the intestine. It was instead in between the two. The tumour was also shifting blood vessels to the colon which made the situation a very critical zone to operate upon.