First Female With 'Tree Man Syndrome' Operated Successfully in Bangladesh

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The first female ever suffering from epidermodysplasia verruciformis, known colloquially as tree man syndrome has been successfully operated. Sahana Khatun, a Bangladeshi girl, is waiting to be released from the hospital in a few days.

On Tuesday, the Bangladeshi doctors conducted a surgery on the 10-year-old and removed a bar like growth from her face skin. She is believed to be the first girl known suffering from the "tree man syndrome". The doctors are hopeful to release her from the hospitals in few days.

Khatun was given a free treatment and the head of the clinic's burn and plastic surgery unit, Samanta Lal Sen said that the operation was successful as they removed warts or tree-bark like growth from her chin, ears, and nose. She will be able to go back home after a couple of weeks, according to Nation.

Less than six people are known all over the world to have ever suffered from this disease and one of them is a 27-year-old cycle rickshaw-puller, Abul Bajandar. He is the only known Bangladeshi man who has this disease.

Bajandar underwent sixteen surgical procedures last year to remove warts growing from his skin which had reached to a size in which each weighed 5 kg. He had appealed the nation to help him get the medical help for his treatment and leading Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to promise him free treatment, reports The Star.

The doctors who cared for Bajandar and operated his warts told AFP last month that the patient was much relieved after the surgery and was able to touch his wife and daughter after almost ten years. His condition was well and fine to leave the hospital.

Shahana's father is delighted on the successful surgery of his daughter and is waiting impatiently for the day when he will be able to take his daughter home and send her to the school again. Her disease was in a very early stage and doctors hope that she will not need any further surgery later.