Thu, 22 Jan, 2004 - 00:00
a renowned American plastic surgeon began a marathon operation in Bucharest yesterday to remove a 176-pound benign tumour from a Romanian woman.
The 46-year-old patient, Lucica Bunghez, suffers from neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder which causes tumours to grow on the body.
Her tumour, which covers much of her back and runs halfway down her thighs, weighs twice as much as she would weigh without it 88 pounds, doctors said.
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