Baldwin woman has rare benign tumor removed from spine
Quick ReadRuth Gutierrez of Baldwin is looking forward to Thanksgiving. "I can actually cook now," said the 32-year-old single mother.
Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | Ruth Gutierrez of Baldwin started having symptoms of weakness and numbness in her legs and knees and got progressively worse to the point of numbness from her chest to her toes. An MRI was done in August and showed a rare tumor, a thoracic meningioma -- only 1-3 cases per million people, per year -- compressing on the spinal cord. The tumor was removed in September by Dr. Ricky Madhok. (Nov. 17, 2010)
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Ruth Gutierrez of Baldwin is looking forward to Thanksgiving.
"I can actually cook now," said the 32-year-old single mother.
That wasn't true seven weeks ago. On Sept. 27 Gutierrez underwent a more than five-hour operation at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow to remove a rare, benign tumor on her spine. The tumor, a thoracic meningioma - a condition that afflicts only 1-3...
