Woman With Giant Facial Birthmark Has Balloon Implants To Avoid Cancer
Twenty-three-year-old Xiao Yan, from Longjing within the Guizhou province of China, suffers from inborn melanocytic mar, the medical name for a specific form of lesion - during this case a blemish -which affects one in a hundred new babies.
With Xiao's big blemish currently turning cancerous - itself a 1-10 p.c probability - doctors have currently taken the forceful step of implanting the balloons beneath her skin so as to grow new skin tissue.
The treatment, overseen by doctors at the Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital in East China, can provide Xiao enough skin to exchange the blemish which can have to be compelled to be cut out.
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