Here is the oculoplastic press releases by Kami Parsa, M.D.
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Surgery Begins For Haitian Girl With Huge Growth On Face
MIAMI -- Doctors in Miami are preparing to remove a 16-pound growth that has engulfed the face of a Haitian girl.Marlie Casseus suffers from a genetic condition that causes deformity in bones. If the growth on her face isn't removed, doctors say the 14-year-old will soon become blind.
"Marlie is not suffering from a tumor, OK? This is a genetic disorder called fibrous dysplasia," said Dr. Jesus Gomez, of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Read more.
Girl Scheduled For 2nd Surgery After Facial Growth Removed
16-Pound Growth Removed From 14-Year-Old's Face
MIAMI -- A 14-year-old girl who underwent surgery to remove a mass from her face is scheduled for a second surgery later this month. Marlie Casseus, 14, of Haiti, is set to undergo a second surgery on Jan. 26. Doctors removed a 16-pound growth from her face in December.Casseus suffers from a rare genetic disease that causes bones to become swollen and jelly-like. Read more.
HAITIAN GIRL WITH 16-POUND TUMOR-LIKE GROWTH ON FACE TO UNDERGO SURGERY
MIAMI (Dec. 13, 2005) – Raising $95,000 for a complex operation seemed an insurmountable task for the family of a 14-year-old girl from poverty stricken Haiti. But only a month after her case was announced to the world, Marlie Casseus stands less than a day away from starting the surgical treatment she needs to get rid of the 16-pound tumor-like growth on her face. Read more.
Surgery Begins For Haitian Girl With Huge Growth On Face
MIAMI -- Doctors in Miami are preparing to remove a 16-pound growth that has engulfed the face of a Haitian girl.Marlie Casseus suffers from a genetic condition that causes deformity in bones. If the growth on her face isn't removed, doctors say the 14-year-old will soon become blind.
"Marlie is not suffering from a tumor, OK? This is a genetic disorder called fibrous dysplasia," said Dr. Jesus Gomez, of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Read more.
Haitian girl healing "according to plan" after facial surgery
MIAMI — The plan had been to remove only part of the huge growth distending Marlie Casseus' upper face and leave the rest for future surgeries, but the operation went so well that doctors just kept going. By the time they'd tied off the last of about 2,500 stitches minutes before midnight Wednesday, surgeons had opened the 14-year-old Haitian girl's face like a book and excised nine pounds of jellylike fibrous tissue, bone fragments, teeth and fluid. Read more.
Girl Recovers After 2nd Surgery To Remove Facial Growth
MIAMI -- A Haitian teen will be able to smile and speak for the first time in years now that she is finally free of a massive tumor-like growth that had engulfed her face, doctors said Friday.Marlie Casseus, 14, was recovering in intensive care after doctors at Jackson Memorial Medical Center in Miami removed the remains of a 16-pound mass from around her mouth and jaw during a nearly nine-hour procedure Thursday. Read more.
Girl Doing Fine After Doctors Remove 16-Pound Mass
MIAMI -- A 14-year-old girl gave a thumbs up to doctors Friday morning, a day after they finished removing much of a 16-pound tumor-like mass that had engulfed her face.
Doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami said the 17-hour procedure was a success and described it as "remarkable." The team of doctors scooped 9 pounds of a mass made up of bone flakes and gel, then restructured her face using plastic and titanium. Read more.
Girl With Huge Facial Growth Undergoing Surgery
Thousands Donated Money To Fund $95,000 Surgery
MIAMI -- A team of four surgeons is performing a delicate and difficult operation to remove a huge growth from a Haitian girl's face.Thousands of people from across the globe answered the call of the International Kids Fund to donate money for a Marlie Casseus, whose face is horribly disfigured by a 16-pound tumor-like growth. Read more.
Doctors Begin Removing 16-Pound Growth From Teen's Face
14-Year-Old Will Undergo 14-Hour Surgery
MIAMI -- A 14-year-old Haitian girl was undergoing a groundbreaking operation Wednesday at Holtz Children's Hospital to remove a 16-pound growth from her face. The operation, which began around 8:30 a.m., is the first of many Marlie Casseus must undergo. Read more.
Doctors Complete Removing 16-Pound Growth From Girl's Face
Teen Suffers From Rare Genetic Disorder
MIAMI -- A 14-year-old Haitian girl is in critical yet stable condition after Miami doctors completed surgery to remove a 16-pound tumor-like mass from her face. Doctors at Holtz Children's Hospital finished operating on Marlie Casseus about 11:40 p.m. Wednesday, nearly 16 hours after the procedure began about 8 a.m. Read more.
Haitian Girl Has Second Surgery
Operation Scheduled To Last 10 Hours
MIAMI -- A second surgery is set today for the 14-year-old Haitian girl, who came to Miami to have a 16-pound tumor-like growth removed from her face. The surgery will remove the remaining mass from the lower portion of Marlie Casseus' face. The girl gained national attention in December when doctors performed a 17-hour surgery on her. Read more.
It Takes a Team
An account of an exceptionally complex multidisciplinary facial reconstructive surgery
Rather than use a rectus free flap to obliterate dead space and isolate the nasopharynx from the intracranial cavity, a Beverly Hills, Calif, facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon participating last year in the resection of a pernicious sinus tumor instead chose a free flap harvested from the patient's forearm to cover the eye, skull base, infratemporal fossa, and other involved facial structures of a sinus cancer patient. Read more.
