Children's surgeons of the Russian regional clinical hospital have removed a tumor weighing more than two kilos from a 10-year-old girl, inside which had hair and tooth fragments, RIA Novosti reported.

According to the agency, in the last days of summer, the parents of a girl who had a sharp stomach ache turned to doctors for help. An ultrasound examination of the pelvic organs showed that the pain causes a volumetric - about 20 centimeters in diameter - neoplasm in the ovary. The girl was urgently hospitalized and after oncology was expelled, she underwent surgery.

During a laparotomy surgery, the doctors removed over two kilograms of teratoma from the patient’s abdominal cavity. In addition to adipose tissue, it contained hair and tooth fragments.

After a successful surgery, the girl was discharged from the hospital under outpatient supervision, specified in the Health Department.

According to doctors, teratomas are benign tumors that occur due to impaired development of the cells of the embryo. Sometimes they can contain individual organs and parts of the body. As experts noted in most cases the disease is asymptomatic, but when the teratoma grows in size, it begins to put pressure on the surrounding organs, which causes the pain syndrome.