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A 14-year-old Haitian girl will be able to smile and speak for the first time in years now that she is finally free of a massive tumorlike growth that had engulfed her face, doctors said Friday.
Marlie Casseus was recovering after a second surgery at Jackson Memorial Medical Center to remove the remains of a 16-pound mass from around her mouth and jaw Thursday.
“I can say that this is a complete success,” said Dr. Jesus Gomez of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, one of the surgeons involved in the nearly nine-hour operation.
The teenager suffers from a rare genetic disease that causes bone to swell and become jelly-like. It began five years ago.
