Mexican doctors remove 33-pound tumor from 26-pound 2-year-old

In this still image taken from an undated video released by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, an image created through medical imaging technology shows an X-ray-like image of 2-year-old Jesus Rodriguez, prior to having a benign tumor removed from his body. Mexican doctors successfully removed a 33 pound tumor from the toddler that weighed more than his body.

/ AP

(AP) MEXICO CITY - Mexican doctors say they have removed a 33-pound (15-kilogram) tumor from the body of a 2-year-old child who weighed only 26 pounds (12 kilograms).

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Dr. Gustavo Hernandez says the child from the northern state of Durango was born with a lump that eventually covered the right side of his body from his armpit to his hip.

Hernandez says it took doctors at the La Raza Medical Center in Mexico City 10 hours to remove the tumor on June 14. Hernandez is the director of pediatrics at La Raza hospital.

He says the boy is recovering and doing well. The doctor also said Tuesday that the operation was the first time Mexican doctors have removed a tumor bigger than the person carrying it.

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Shocking medical scans

[gnimelf1968]

I never understand why they wait so long to take these things off. I'm sure it wouldn't have taken so long for the surgery and cause as much trauma to the body if they would have done it when it was smaller.

[jazzinwine]

Most likley because they couldn't afford it! Not everyone can just waltz into a doctor's office or hospital and get care for ailments.

[themanfrombrum]

It doesn't like the international media are good at math, or the translator was taking them for a ride!

[idebbi]

i'm sure that they meant the boy weighed 26 lbs after the tumor was removed....

[eroteme2]

A bit of information is obviously lacking. Health Pop (whatever that might be) should have gained accurate informaion before offering this news item. Removing a tumor that weighs more than the child would seem to be impossible.

[Bush-cheney-R-Terrorists]

Unless the boy weighs negative seven pounds now, which may not be a healthy condition either...

[idebbi]

i'm sure that they meant the boy weighed 26 lbs after the tumor was removed....

[CurDog23]

Update: After further review of the scans, it is now believed that the child has the much-more serious affliction of having no neck. (But seriously though, I hope he is doing well.)

[oneslownewsday1]

I bet the tumor looked like Obama the malignant growth on America.
Poor child.
I hope he has a normal life but says in Mexico where he and his family belong.

[hypnotoad72]

If what you say about Obama is true, then I suggest you consider these:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/vp/40575006#40575006

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/11/romneys-advisers-met-with-obama-to-help-craft-obama-care/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2011/10/11/how-mitt-romneys-health-care-experts-helped-design-obamacare/

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/04/14/158424/republican-leaders-debt-limit-hypocrisy/

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/27/eric_cantor_conflict_of_interest/index.html

and



http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Rick_Santorum.htm#Corporations
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/mitch_mcconnell.htm#Corporations
http://www.ontheissues.org/john_mccain.htm#Corporations
http://www.issues2000.org/senate/Judd_Gregg.htm#Corporations
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/jim_demint.htm#Corporations
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Orrin_Hatch.htm#Corporations
http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Chuck_Grassley.htm#Corporations

"Voted NO on repealing tax subsidy for companies which move US jobs offshore. (Mar 2005)"
(As Obama voted YES to repeal what amounted to a continuation of anti-free market, plutocractic practices, and yet it's Obama who is "socialist" (another word that many on your side don't understand the actual definition of...)... especially as those chaps, giving money to corporations offshoring, know that the same companies would go belly under if they didn't get our "taxation via representation" form of handouts. "Too big to fail"? You betcha.

[TimeToEvolve]

This is a good article for people who can't do math. This is what happens when you just parrot stories from others who can't do math.

[oneslownewsday1]

So you liked it Mr Einstein?
Chill out dude and put your abacus away!
LOL!

[nancy_naive]

and what was left, was the weight of OneSlowGuy's brain.

[kat1043]

I have to say that the phrasing in the artical was a bit awkward but, story specifies that the tumor was 33 lbs and "the body of a 2-year-old child who weighed only 26 pounds".

[idebbi]

i'm sure that they meant the boy weighed 26 lbs after the tumor was removed....

[xopher425]

What is so confusing?

The tumor was 33 pounds, the child weighed 26 pounds. Together they weighed 59 pounds. It even said in the caption under the pic that the tumor weighed more than the child.

Hopefully now this kid can live a normal life.

[pderoo1]

Apparently Mexican doctors are not very good at math.

[CarlosMachina]

The boy now weighs minus-7 pounds.