• Salud.Cavadas removes an African child from one of the largest tumors that has intervened

He has not been able to enjoy his new life. Emmanuel, the 10-year-old boy to whom Dr. Pedro Cavadas removed a larger craniocerebral tumor that his head died on the afternoon of this Friday when he left the country in a plane that has been forced to land urgently at the airport Malaga. As EL MUNDO has learned from sources close to the case, the boy felt bad in the middle of the flight and eventually died due to circumstances that will try to clarify the autopsy, which was scheduled for Saturday at the headquarters of the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) of Malaga. The device, which had departed from Madrid, and apparently had as destination Casablanca, was forced to land at the Malaga airfield because it was the one that was closest when the fatal outcome has occurred.

Members of the State security forces and health services, who could only certify the death, traveled to the ship. After performing a document check, the body was removed. The Civil Guard has opened proceedings in relation to death, whose development is pending legal medical examination. Cavadas, known as the 'Doctor Milagro', reported days ago of the results of the surgical intervention that saved the little boy, of African origin, from "a death in very bad conditions and relatively soon." His father, Jules Mbulá, explained that Emmanuel had been with the tumor for five years and had gone through many hospitals without finding a solution. "I always wondered when they were going to operate it," he recalled. After studying for about two weeks this "rare and infrequent case", since "there are not many tumors that reach this size", Pedro Cavadas considered surgery and operated on the child twice, with a difference between the two of eight days.

During the first intervention, which lasted about 10 hours, the entire jaw was removed, the area between the eye orbits, the palate and a part of the inside of the mouth, which was reconstructed after the tumor was removed. The second surgery, also about 10 hours long, focused on doing the intracreaneal part, to remove the anterior and middle base of the skull and rebuild it with part of its own ribs. "With the two surgeries we were able to remove the entire tumor and rebuild it. Everything went very well," said the doctor at a press conference, where he indicated that in a few days the boy would return to his country and there his nose will be reconstructed and will put dentures

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