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Mafraq Hospital removes 
170 grams facial tumour

ABU DHABI — Doctors at Abu Dhabi’s Mafraq Hospital, on Sunday, announced carrying out a successful, complicated face surgery on a 42-year-old man, by removing a massive tumour sandwiched between his right side jaw and neck.

According to the hospital, it was a highly complex maxillofacial eight-hour surgery, involving the head, neck, face and jaw areas.

The surgery involved a multi-disciplinary team of doctors and surgeons to remove the large and benign tumour deforming the face of the Emirati patient, who did not want to be identified by name. Surgeons removed the patient’s complete lower jaw (mandible) and floor of his mouth to remove the 18cm x 4cm tumour. The tumour, according to Dr Christopher Reuter, Consultant and Chief of the Plastic/Craniofacial Department at the hospital, weighed 170 grams. The patient was treated by the Department of Plastic and Cranio-facial Surgery at the hospital, with surgery carried out by a team led by Dr A Nasser Hachem, and Dr Reuter.

“The patient had great difficulty in both speaking and eating,” he said. If he was not operated upon, he would have died of suffocation, or would have been blinded, the doctor explained. The tumour would have grown to reach his eyes,” he said.Dr Reuter added that the patient had recovered three months after the operation.

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