MELBOURNE, July 13 -- A Malaysian has led a team of four surgeons to remove a disfiguring growth from the face of a seven-year-old Filipino boy at the Monash Children's Hospital here.Plastic surgeon James Leong Chin Sek, who was born in Kota Bahru, Kelantan, said Jhonny Lameon (picture) had a severe fronto-nasal encephalocele --a neural tube defect that results in membranous sacs expanding through openings in the skull.Picture show Jhonny Lameon before and after surgery.--fotoBERNAMA (2014) COPYRIGHT RESERVED

photographed by: Neville D'Cruz