Zayas has polyostotic fibrous dysplasia. This rare and serious condition is a skeletal problem that occurs when the cells that form bones don't mature properly. Instead, they make too much ...

Panels A, B, and C show polyostotic fibrous dysplasia involving nearly every ... the National Institutes of Health Department of Radiology data base (between January and December 2001).

Doctors operate a patient at French hospital institut Curie specialized in cancer treatment, on Nov. 4, 2014, in Paris. Getty Images A 14-year-old boy, who underwent a surgery to remove 10-pound ...

With monostotic disease, patients as old as 20 or 30 years are asymptomatic. In polyostotic type of fibrous dysplasia, more than one bone or a group of bones is involved, and the prognosis is poorer.

"Another angel has arrived in heaven." Zayas' condition is known as polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, which caused the boy's body to develop scar-like tissue instead of bone. Marx first ...

Emanuel Zayas’s death brought an end to the teenager’s 12-year battle with a rare condition called polyostotic fibrous dysplasia. Emanuel Zayas’s death brought an end to the teenager’s 12 ...

When Emanuel Zayas was born, he was diagnosed with a rare disorder called polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, a condition that replaces multiple areas of bones with fibrous tissue and may cause ...

Emanuel has polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, a rare bone disorder where scar-like tissue forms instead of bones. Sometimes large tumors, which are benign, develop, too. When doctors in Cuba learned ...

Download WPBF 25 News App: Apple IOS | AndroidZayas' parents told reporters at a news conference last month that their son, who suffered from polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, was forced to watch the ...