A team of medical experts at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital will investigate a case of what is commonly known as the ‘tree man disease’, Bangladeshi hospital officials said Saturday.
Twenty-five-year-old Abul Bajandar, formerly a rickshaw puller, was admitted to the hospital with the rare disease in which his hands and legs projected tree-like growths.
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Dr Samanta Lal Sen, Director of the Plastic Surgery and Burn Unit at Dhaka Medical College hospital said he was aware of two other cases of the disease in the world – one in Indonesia and another in Romania.
“We don’t know what will be able to do. We are going to do a medical board,” he said.
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