YOUNG RUSSIAN BURN VICTIM TO BE OPERATED ON TODAY.Byline: Greg Gittrich Daily News Staff Writer A 10-year-old Russian boy horribly burned in a fire will undergo reconstructive surgery reconstructive surgery n. Plastic surgery. reconstructive surgery, n surgery to rebuild a structure for functional or esthetic reasons. today at the Grossman Burn Center of Sherman Oaks Hospital Sherman Oaks Hopital (SOH) is an 153 bed acute care facility in Sherman Oaks, California, USA and is home of world renowned the Grossman Burn Center. SOH is owned and operated by Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. and Health Center. Surgery is scheduled to begin at 6 a.m. and is expected to last about 90 minutes, hospital officials said. Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz. Nefedova's face and hands were burned during an accident at his family's home last year when a candle tipped over and ignited gasoline fumes fumes odorous gases and other volatile materials; inhalation of irritating fumes causes coughing and, if sufficiently severe, irreversible pulmonary edema. . Today's surgery will be the first of many treatments during the coming year to trim scar tissue scar tissue n. Dense, fibrous connective tissue that forms over a healed wound or cut. from the boy's face and graft on skin from his leg, which is more elastic and will allow him more normal expressions and movement. Doctors also plan to reconstruct the boy's nose and hope to give him back use of his thumbs. Denis had been treated for two months near his home and then underwent advanced treatment in Moscow, but doctors there were unable to perform the reconstructive surgeries with much success. The boy's case came to the attention of Dr. Michael Pomo Pomo, Native Americans of N California, belonging to the Hokan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). The Pomo were the most southerly Native Americans on the California coast not brought under the mission influence of the of North Hollywood, who was volunteering his services last year on Sakhalin Island - located off Russia's Pacific coast, north of Japan. Dr. A. Richard Grossman, the burn center's founder, agreed to donate his services to defray costs. Constrained by a household income of only $80 per month, the boy's father, Andre, stayed on Sakhalin Island to continue working, and neighbors pitched in for plane fare for Denis and his mother, Janna. |
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