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Chinese Orphan Undergoes Surgery at Arkansas Children's Hospital That Few Physicians Can Offer Worldwide

(Little Rock, Arkansas – May 4, 2006) -- Five-year-old Gong Lu of Fenyi, China has a short wish list for a child her age. She dreams of a school with other children, an operation to remove a tumor from her nose and adoption into a loving family. Orphaned when she was only a few days old, Gong Lu lives in a welfare center, surrounded by people who love her, support her uniqueness and have helped her foster an incredible sense of self confidence. She was born with a significant deformity on her nose, a vascular tumor the size of her fist, made up of tissue and blood vessels that have grown out of control.

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Photo 1: Dr. Lisa Buckmiller visits with 5-year-old Gong Lu and Weihua Xu, the director of the the Chinese orphanage, before surgery.

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Photo 2: Gong Lu sits in the waiting room before being taken to the O.R. to have the hemangioma on her nose surgically removed.

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Photo 3: In the recovery room just after surgery, host parent Lisa Ferrell, left, orphanage director Weihua Xu, middle, and their interpreter react to seeing Gong Lu's nose for the first time.

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Photo 4: After removing a hemangioma, a benign tumor made up of tissue and blood vessels, from Gong Lu's nose, Dr. Lisa Buckmiller applies just a few 'steri-strips' finishing up the procedure.

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Photo 5: After surgery to move a hemangioma from her nose, Gong Lu, an orphan from China has become very close to her surgeon, Dr. Lisa Buckmiller, the chief of the Vascular Anomalies program at ACH. Here, Gong Lu visits with Dr. Buckmiller before being taken back to the O.R. to have the stitches removed from her new nose.

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Photo 6: Weihua Xu, director of the Chinese orphanage where Gong Lu lives, gets a closer look at Gong Lu's nose after surgery in the recovery room at Arkansas Children's Hospital.

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