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12 January 2012

 Enormous Tumours

This photograph released by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) shows Indian woman Lakhmani Devi with a large parotid gland tumour.
(AFP/AIIMS/Ho)

Natalie Pierre looks away from the large mass of tumours that threatened the life of her 13-year-old son Osly St. Preux in January 2009. A week after the photo was taken, surgeons at Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital successfully removed the grapefruit-sized tumour from the Haitian boy's armpit.
(AP)

A medical technician at Belgrade's Dragisa Misovic hospital holds an 86-pound benign tumour removed from the abdomen of an anonymous 54-year-old female patient in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in April 2007.
(Reuters)

Huang Chuncai, a 32-year-old man from a remote village in China's southern province of Hunan, is photographed in January 2008, prior to surgery for the removal of 10 pounds of facial tumours caused by neurpofibromatosis, a genetic disorder of the nervous system.

Huang's original tumour weighed over 50 pounds, but 28 pounds were removed during a previous operation in 2007, and he still required the remaining 12 pounds to be removed in a third, future, operation.
(Reuters)

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15-year old Vietnamese girl, Lai Thi Dao, waves to media at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, prior to a 10-hour operation in April 2008 to remove a 16-pound facial tumour that had been growing on her face since she was 3 years old.

The tumour - known as a Schwannoma tumour, and one of the largest ever reported - had grown so large that she was unable to eat or speak normally and there was a danger that she would suffocate. The removal of the tumour was a complete success, and doctors reported that it was very unlikely to return.

32-year-old Vietnamese man, Nguyen Duy Hai, successfully underwent a 12 hour operation in January 2012 to remove an enormous tumour from his leg. A team of eight, headed by American surgeon McKay McKinnon, undertook the task free of charge, as the patient had earlier lost part of his leg during an unsuccessful operation in 1997.

The growth began when Nguyen was only a boy, starting at the base of his spine and spreading up his back. It then travelled down his leg and around his thigh. The problem of removing it was not a simple one, with the growth having caused the tangling of blood vessels which could have ruptured during surgery. In addition, the strain on his heart from supporting a blood supply to the tumour, as well as the loss of nutrients and oxygen to the growth, meant that his body was in a weakened condition.

Mr McKinnon said he should make a good recovery, although it would be a lengthy one because of the continual risk of infection and the need for multiple skin grafts.

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