Abul Bayandar, a 27-year-old man from Bangladesh, known as the "tree man" because of the growths on his arms and legs, was operated on - surgeons removed the growths. Over the past year, Bayandar went through 16 such operations, during which 5 kg of growths were removed. The successful operation is reported in The Washington Post.
His disease is called Epidermodysplasia verruciformis - epidermodysplasia verruciform. It is a hereditary disease characterized by a predisposition to skin infection with the human papillomavirus. Its first symptoms appear in childhood. The tree-limb-like growths on the body are overgrown warts caused by a virus. For Bayandar, they first appeared in adolescence, and after 20 years they began to grow rapidly.
“Now I feel much better,” Bayandar said. "I can hug my daughter and play with her." The cure of a man has become a landmark event in medicine - previously the disease was considered incurable. If the warts do not return again, it can be considered that he became the first person to recover from epidermodysplasia verruciform.
