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Maison Jackson

Winner of the $30,000 Cash Raffle was:
Judy Tobery of Baker Valley Road, Frederick

Pictured is Judy Tobery and Maison's Father!
 

An Operation No One Else Would Tackle

Maison Jackson is in need of a 2nd surgery and help with medical expenses. This fundraiser is to help this little boy live a normal happy life. Read below for full story or to make a donation.
 

You may make a donation towards Maison's Fundraiser to the PPF, Inc.

PPF sends a special thanks to Frederick Aviation-Dorothy & Julie for contacting Advanced Helicopter Concepts and making Maison's dream come true by giving him and his parents a flying tour of Frederick. He Loved It!!!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless You.

"He plays, he's happy, he's ornery like any 2-year-old," says Tammie Jackson of her son's recovery from his operation, "Dr. Tufaro was a godsend."

The tumor on 18-month old Maison Jackson's face had ballooned to the size of a softball. Appearing around the little boy's first birthday, the mass had been steadily enlarging week by week, distorting his mouth, inflating his left cheek and closing his left nostril. By the time his parents were referred to Anthony Tufaro, a plastic surgeon specializing in head and neck surgery, the tumor had inched dangerously close to Maison's left eye.

At first, physicians had told the Jacksons that the growth was simply part of the port wine stain Maison had been born with. The reddish facial birthmark, characterized by an overabundance of capillaries just beneath the skin's surface, typically signals the presence of Sturge- Weber syndrome, a congenital neurological disorder that can include such symptoms as seizures, glaucoma and excessive blood vessel growth on the surface of the brain. When he was 8 months old, Maison did have two seizures but ever since then has responded well to medication. And by the time his tumor became visible, he was already being treated for glaucoma. Yet, despite the progressively worsening facial disfigurement that was also afflicting their son, the, Jacksons heard only that there was nothing to be done for it.

"The moment I saw Maison,” says Tufaro, "I knew he needed an operation. He had what's called an ossifying fibroma - a rare tumor that's usually benign but very aggressive. It was so large that it had displaced his upper teeth and jaw. He couldn't eat, he couldn't breathe, he was snoring. He was so dysfunctional from the tumor, we had to do something.”

Tufaro knew immediately that the sheer size of Maison's fibroma was worrisome-"We weren’t sure it wasn’t cancer," he says, "and we didn't know if we'd have to remove his eye and socket!' But what presented one of the toughest technical challenges was the fact that the tumor was sitting amid a bed of dilated blood vessels. Not only would Tufaro have to completely remove the boy's upper jaw in order to excise the massive growth, he would have to do so with the risk that the child could bleed to death during the operation.

To solve that problem, Tufaro turned to interventional radiologist Sally Mitchell. Mitchell first used magnetic resonance imaging to make the tangle of blood vessels visible, then assisted Tufaro during the four-hour procedure by floating coils in the vessels to limit blood flow. Even so, says Tufaro, “I had to go slow. One blood vessel feeding that tumor was the size of my finger.” Tufaro was able to remove virtually all of the 5-centimeter mass, which to everyone's relief was non-cancerous. "Maison will probably need further reconstructive surgery down the line;' he says, "but he bounced back one two three. He’s growing. He’s thriving.”
 

 
 

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