Surgeons remove massive growth that was covering a teenager’s face because they thought it might burst and the patient would drown in his own blood if it did…

Zoubair Lahdodi lived with a terrible growth that encompassed the left half of his face for the most part of 18 years.

His lips and tongue were thrust forth as the blood vessels under his skin swelled up and enlarged. This caused his lips and tongue to be forced outwards.

The bulk on the teenager’s face increased in proportion to his overall growth.

But as of today, Zoubair is getting ready to go back to Morocco, where he was born, after undergoing seven major surgical operations in New York City to get the bulk of the growth removed off his face.

Since he was a young child, Zoubair Lahdodi, now 18 years old, has been affected by a venous malformation. The young man, who is seen on the left before to surgery, traveled tens of thousands of kilometers to get treatment in New York City after leaving his home in Morocco. On the right is a photo of him now, after seven surgeries were performed to remove the tumor.

On the streets of Casablanca, the locals began to refer to the young man as Stunteur Zoubair as a result of his passion for performing stunts while riding his bike. But the young man was completely unaware that his pastime posed a threat to his life, despite the fact that physicians had warned him that if he fell and struck the growth, he risked rupturing the blood arteries beneath the skin and drowning in his own blood.

Abderrahmane, Zoubair’s father, worked as a taxi driver, and he was unable to afford to send his son to the United States for the potentially life-saving operation.

As a result, the Waner Foundation, a charitable organization that assists children who are in need of life-changing procedures, sent Zoubair to New York City so that he could be treated by vascular plastic surgeon Dr. Milton Waner and his colleagues at the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.

Because of the incredible stunt bike maneuvers that the young man performed on the streets of Casablanca, he became known as Stunteur Zoubair.

But the young man, who was 18 years old at the time, had no concept how hazardous it might be for him to fall off his bike. He was also ignorant that the facial growth that he had lived with ever since he was a little kid was a “timebomb.”

A sort of vascular anomaly that affects the veins in Zoubair’s face, known as a venous malformation, was determined to be the cause of Zoubair’s condition.

Any blow to the face had the potential to burst the enlarged blood vessels, which would have led to serious and perhaps lethal hemorrhage.

After enduring 18 years of living with his disease, being looked at, and being labeled as strange, Zoubair finally received the therapy he required after making the journey from his birthplace in Morocco all the way to New York, which is almost 3,500 miles away.

Malformations of the blood vessels that are present at birth are included under the umbrella term known as vascular malformation.

Some people may only have problems in their lymph vessels as a result of the abnormality, while others will only experience abnormalities in their veins, and yet others will experience abnormalities in both their veins and their arteries simultaneously.

In the instance of Zoubair, he was diagnosed with venous malformation, which is a disorder that exclusively affects his veins.

The illness is already there at the time of birth, but its symptoms won’t start to show up until the patient reaches a certain age.

The experts do not yet have a complete understanding of what causes the deformities to take place.

Investigations are now being carried out in order to investigate the likelihood that they are inherited.

However, researchers think that the vast majority of abnormalities occur during the development of the blood arteries that are damaged.

The symptoms of a vascular malformation might vary greatly depending on the part of the body that is affected by the condition.

Pain at the location of an irregularity in the veins, such as the kind that Zoubair had, is a common symptom of venous malformations.

They often result in the development of a lump under the skin, as well as a blemish on the surface of the skin itself.

It is also typical for lesions on the skin to bleed or leak fluid when they develop.

Surgeons can only sometimes remove vascular abnormalities in their entirety, despite the fact that surgery is often helpful in aiding in the management of a patient’s condition.

As a consequence of this, it is not uncommon for a patient’s deformity to return after they have had surgery.