Boy dies after surgery to remove 10-pound facial tumor

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A 14-year-old boy died after undergoing surgery to remove a 10-pound tumor from his face.

Emanuel Zayas and his family traveled to the U.S. from Cuba to have the surgery in Miami. Doctors and relatives confirmed Zayas died Friday, according to statements reported by the Miami Herald and NBC 6 in Miami.

"I am saddened by the fact that we are losing him and that the physiological stress of the surgery was apparently too much for his compromised anatomy," said Dr. Robert Marx, chief of oral and maxillofacial surgery for the University of Miami Health System, in a statement to the Herald. "Our hopes of saving his life, and with that allowing him a better quality of life, were not realized."

When the growth first appeared, Zayas and his parents thought it was just a pimple, but the tumor eventually grew bigger than a basketball.

Although the tumor was benign, doctors were concerned it was big enough to suffocate Zayas or break his neck. Last month, doctors revealed a surgery had been scheduled to have the tumor removed.

More at https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...gery-remove-10-pound-facial-tumor/1053128001/

 

[rectmobile]

Tumors should be reversed and not removed. The area in and around the tumor is part of him. If you reversed it, it stays with him and he will not die.

 

[Truth_Hurts]

Considering he has a fate worse than death due to his disability, he is now in a better place. No need to live with a disability and suffer from a poor quality of life. Death is part of life, deal with it.