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Doctors had to use a hammer and chisel to remove a basketball-sized tumour from a student's face.
Adrián Espino, from Chihuahua, Mexico, first developed the lump as a child when his parents noticed a "bruise" on his face.
His mother Maria said: "I used to say to my husband ’Maybe he hurt himself, maybe he hit something'. He was always crying and holding his face.”
But the bruise eventually swelled into a three-kilo growth which engulfed his right eye, mouth and nose.
Several attempts to try and stem the growth were unsuccessful and Adrián’s tumour only got bigger
His father, Adrián Snr, took their son to hospital, where he was diagnosed with Polycystic Fibrous Dysplasia, which causes certain bones to grow in random directions as the body develops.
The father said: “When the diagnosis came the doctor said ‘This is going to spread all over his face. This is only the beginning. There is no cure for this. This only stops when the patient stops growing. But for the now, it will be a process of operation after operation, after operation to remove the tumour’."