A man’s bizarre struggle with a 5st 7lbs tumour which drooped down below his knees has caused a stir in the medical community. The super rare condition left him unable to achieve an erection
A man was left with a “buried penis” after a huge tumour caused his stomach to grow past his knees.
The 54-year-old was admitted to hospital with what appeared to be an abdominal pannus – a fold of excess skin and fat that hangs over the stomach, also known as an apron belly.
While a pannus often follows weight loss, the patient denied having lost any weight, and had a BMI of 56.3, putting him in the class 3 severely obese category.
As a result of the overhanging, he had a “buried” penis, and reported difficulty with urinating, loss of erection, infertility, and an inability to see his penis.
A CAT scan revealed the shocking cause: a huge mass, which contained only a small amount of fat tissue, and was largely made up of fibrous connective tissue. The man was put under general anaesthesia while doctors operated to remove the mass, which was found to be a tumour weighing a whopping 35kg (5st 7lbs).
Following the removal, the patient’s BMI dropped immediately to 43.9, and he remained in hospital for six days for recovery.
Pathology reports found he had been suffering from an abdominal aggressive fibromatosis (also known as a desmoid tumour) – a rare, slow-growing tumour in connective tissue.
The patient remained under care, receiving check-ups for five months following the surgery, but recovered well. The case was shared recently in a medical journal, following the patient’s treatment in Skopje, North Macedonia.
It comes as the man with the “world’s biggest willy“, according to medical studies, has revealed how his dating life is and the one date he would never go on.
Matt Barr often hits the headlines thanks to his rather large member, which he has had independently measured at a whopping 14.5 inches (37cm). And it appears his todger being declared the “biggest medically proven penis in the world” has left women flocking in their droves.
But the 41-year-old says dating isn’t all that easy – and that the attention he gets is often quite “exhausting”.
“The attention I got from my initial media attention was exhausting enough,” said the AI specialist, from London.
Matt said: “Given the taboo nature of my ‘gift’, thankfully it doesn’t change too much about the way women treat me at first – at least not sober ones. But people do make assumptions before getting to know me.”
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