Peruvian boy with a rare tumor is saved by Spanish doctors

A team of Spanish neurosurgeons and neurophysiologists managed to operate successfully on a Peruvian boy who had a rare type of tumor that had caused doctors to give him a few months to live, according to the Spanish media El Mundo.

The intervention, which took place in July, took place at the Nuestra Señora del Rosario Polyclinic, in Ibiza. At that time, the specialists told him that it was located in a place on his body that most doctors had ruled out operating.

The tumor was a benign pilocytic astrocytoma. According to the doctor who led the intervention, Pedro Llinás, the removal of this benign tumor becomes curative. In the case of the minor, this compromised his ability to breathe, movement and heart function.

According to the child’s mother, Janet Correa, the doctors in Peru told her that according to the Spanish media.

But, after an intervention that managed to remove only a part of the tumor, the boy was weakening, so his family began a campaign to find an alternative so that the minor does not die. Thanks to that,

Xavier Santander, a Peruvian neurosurgeon at the Nuestra Señora del Rosario Polyclinic, learned of the case. The institution’s specialists analyzed the child’s medical history. that could save your life. This, finally, was held on July 2.

“His recovery has been amazing. He was not more than 24 hours in the ICU and ”, the mother relates.

Now they are in Peru. Mathías has just turned 14 years old.

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