BANGALORE: Suffering from sebaceous horn for six months, 65-year-old Raju was cured at government-run Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital here on Friday.
Sebaceous horn is a condition in which a tooth paste like fluid begins to ooze out regularly which dries up and become hard in consistency. The horn is directed downward and fixed at the base.
A resident of Indiranagar, Raju had complaints of a lesion in angle of the mouth which protruded outside the cheek and was six inches long. It started growing from on the left side of his upper lip.
Speaking to Express Dr Shankarappa, head of the department of plastic surgery at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital said that this is one of the most rare surgeries which was conducted in a government hospital.
“Besides this condition, Raju was also a patients with renal disorder, diabetes and high blood pressure. Therefore he was unfit for the anesthesia and hence was operated under local anesthesia”, he added. Raju was admitted to the hospital on May 7 and will remain under observation for a week.;