Lula da Silva leaves the hospital after removal of a larynx lesion

Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was hospitalized on Sunday (Nov. 20) at the Sírio-Libanês Hospital in São Paulo for a laryngoscopy to remove a leukoplakia, a white lesion, from the left vocal cord.

According to the medical bulletin published this Monday (Nov. 21), the procedure showed the absence of neoplasia, a tumor caused by abnormal growth of the number of cells.

The President-elect was discharged on Monday and was accompanied by medical teams coordinated by Dr. Roberto Kalil Filho, the president-elect’s physician.

The injury was diagnosed after a routine check-up before Lula da Silva’s trip to Egypt last week.

There, the tests yielded “normal results and continue to show complete remission of the tumor diagnosed in 2011″, also according to the medical bulletin, but with the presence of a small area of leukoplakia in the larynx.

Lula is at home in São Paulo and has no official public agenda this Monday.