Previously disfigured girl goes to prom
Cody Hall, a 15-year-old English girl that was born with hemangioma, a tumorous birthmark on her face that grew with age and caused disfigurement, has had 18 reconstructive surgeries and will now attend her first prom. Click through to the full story to see photos of the amazing transformation (not to mention a picture of her as a baby with Fergie! Score! Uh, this one, not that one.)
“Cody came to me several years back after she had undergone an initial procedure in San Francisco,” Hall’s surgeon, Milton Waner, told FOXNews.com. “She had some really bad problems at the time. It was a very difficult situation. She had excessive scarring from an aggressive hemangioma.”
Most of her 18 surgeries have been performed at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York.
“She had extensive tissue destruction and we performed several procedures to restore her face back to normalcy,” said Waner, who is co-director of the Vascular Birthmarks Institute of New York at Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center.
Waner said hemangiomas are benign tumors of the stem cells. Although the tumors are not fatal, their complications can be.
Information from: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,3591...
