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A group of surgeons from the Krasnodar Regional Clinic, a city in southwestern Russia, performed an operation to remove a black birthmark that covers much of the face of an American baby.
Luna Fenner was born into a family of Brazilian origin. He suffers from a dermatological condition on his face called ‘giant congenital melanocytic nevus’. In addition, he had already undergone this type of procedure twice, that is, this was his third surgery.
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This time the doctors they disinfected his cheek to avoid possible infections and performed a photodynamic laser therapy, area in which the clinic is specialized. This was explained by the executive director of the hospital, Andréi Alexutkin, to the Russian media ‘RIA Novosti’.
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The journalistic portal reported that Russian doctors found a publication on the internet about Lunna and were interested in treating and studying her birthmark, for which they contacted the family.
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The mother, Karolina, began taking her to treatment on October 19, 2019. That was the first operation of the six or eight that medical professionals have planned.
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“We have time until the new year, but then they have to go for the visa regime. During this period we will only have time to monitor the healing process of the skin and remove the scars that have appeared. The rest of the procedures will be done next year. ”Andrei Aleksutkin told ‘RIA Novosti’.
The rest of the procedures will be done next year
“We still don’t know how to arrange the details because we are in the middle of a global pandemic,” said the surgeon. In addition, he clarified that They removed the girl “around 70% of the stain and now the tissue regeneration process is underway”.
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Previously, the clinic announced that the treatment would take about a year and a half.
In early March this year, it was also reported that after Luna Fenner another little one-year-old American from Texas flew to Krasnodar to remove a ‘congenital nevus’ on her face.
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