Doctors look for small tumor, find 56-pounder

'We were totally shocked,' doctor says after surgery on 54-year-old woman

Doctors were shocked when they looked into a woman's uterus searching for an orange-size tumor but found something that resembled a giant rock instead.

Surgeons ended up removing a 56-pound tumor from the 54-year-old woman. It was 19 inches across.

"At first sight, one could see it was going to be a big tumor, but not that big," said Dr. Oscar Lopez, leader of the surgical team that operated on the woman at Gandulfo Hospital in the city of Lomas de Zamora.