The 3 lbs tumour, which was benign, was so large that the patient, identified only by his first name, Angelo, had trouble eating and breathing before the gruelling eight-hour operation in Milan to reconstruct his face
Surgeons in Italy were forced to reconstruct the face of a patient named Angelo using his leg bone after removing a massive 3-pound tumor on his jaw that was impinging on his quality of life.
Italian surgeons successfully reconstructed a patient's face using his leg bone after removing a three-pound tumor from his jaw, the New York Post reports.