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Sore throat at a New Yorker turned out to be a brain tumor.

Throughout her life, Christina Juffried had minor health problems: headaches, hearing loss, and ear infections. But they did not seem serious enough to sound the alarm.

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“Kids get ear infections all the time,” says the 19-year-old resident of Yonkers, New York.

When she suffered two such infections for several months, and also suffered from constant migraines, the doctor wrote it off as a side effect of poor vision.

Juffried's hearing was also bad. She often asked teachers and friends to repeat what was said. Seasonal allergies often caused her sore throat, which she was used to, but one morning this problem began to bother her more than usual.

“I woke up three times a night,” she says. “I couldn’t swallow because of the severe pain.” At 6 o'clock in the morning the girl told her mother that she needed to go to the emergency room.

At the hospital, doctors performed a CT scan of her head and found a cyst. A few days later, an MRI scan showed that the cyst was a benign tumor that had grown in Christina’s head since birth.

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Symptoms of these tumors include ear pain and headaches.

“She had very serious symptoms - problems with swallowing,” explained surgeon Konstantinos Hadjipanais.

“It was amazing how big the tumor was,” he added.

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Doctors believe that the inflammation and swelling in the throat caused by allergies, pressed on a tumor in the brain and caused the girl pain. But thanks to the throat problem, she learned that she had more serious health problems.

Two weeks after the visit to the emergency department, Kristine was operated on to remove the tumor, it lasted 6 hours. Her mom and boyfriend were terrified.

“I’m usually nervous, but when it came to this, I was calm and grateful that it wasn’t cancerous,” Giuffrida said.

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However, the operation was risky. The tumor was located close to the nerve endings. One wrong move could cause a stroke or permanent damage, such as facial paralysis.

To remove the tumor, the doctor used a new form of a robotic digital microscope, Modus V, manufactured in Toronto by Synaptive.

Waking up after the operation, Juffried noticed a change in state of health. If earlier she struggled to hear someone at arm's length due to poor hearing, then after a successful procedure, everything was the opposite.

“I came out of surgery and when my dad started talking to me, it sounded like he was screaming,” she says. “Although he spoke quite quietly.”

The girl went through a long process of recovery. She had to re-learn to keep her balance and swallow, as her brain began to recover from nerve dislocation during surgery.

Now, less than two months after surgery and rehabilitation, Juffreda returned to Westchester Community College, where she studies criminal justice, she also works in retail to pay bills.

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