Thursday 1 May 2008

US surgeons remove giant facial tumour from Vietnamese girl


22:47' 01/05/2008 (GMT+7)

Lai Thi Dao (photo: AP)

Surgeons from Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami , Florida , have successfully removed a 7 kg tumour from the face of a Vietnamese girl.

The surgeons’ team said that Lai Thi Dao got a bean-sized spot on her tongue at the age of 3, which later developed very fast to become a tumour.

The benign tumour called “Schawannoma”, making up one-third of her weight, caused a lot of difficulties for Dao in her daily life.

The 12-hour 107,000 USD operation was paid by an NGO for Children.

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