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  • Football-sized tumour from the jaw was removed at Amrita Hospital

    Football-sized tumour from the jaw was removed at Amrita Hospital

    The surgeons at Amrita Hospital removed a football-sized tumour from the jaw of Amar Samad, a 19-year-old tribal boy from Jharkhand, India. The surgery, which was done at no charge, took 14 hours. It involved the reconstruction of Amar’s jaw using his leg bone. It was the largest jaw tumour of its kind ever reported.…