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British supermodel Naomi Campbell underwent emergency surgery in Brazil to have a cyst removed from her abdomen, one of her doctors and her spokesperson said on Tuesday.

"I can say that I operated on her on Monday and that she is completely healed," doctor Jose Aristodemo Pinotto, a gynecological specialist, told the website of the newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo.

"I am already allowing her to get out of bed," he added.

Campbell, 37, was recovering in the Sirio-Libanes Hospital in Sao Paulo, where she was admitted late on Monday.

"Naomi Campbell was admitted to hospital last night to have a small cyst removed," Britain's Press Association news agency quoted an unnamed spokesperson for the model as saying.

All went well

"Following the successful procedure, she is now resting and is looking forward to getting back to work. She would like to thank the doctors who have kindly looked after her."

Pinotto said the procedure was "an emergency" but went well.

"There was no incident whatsoever, nor any sort of problem that caused any worry during the surgery," he said.

"We used a laparoscopy (a tiny micropscope inserted inside the body), without need to do the traditional method that would have required opening the abdomen," he said.

A Brazilian specialist in infectious diseases, David Uip, is in charge of Campbell's care.

He told the website of another newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo, that Campbell had flown from London to Sao Paulo specifically for the surgery.

At her bedside?

Campbell was last in Brazil just three weeks ago, to watch carnival celebrations in the northern city of Salvador.

The newspaper O Globo said the hospital was not divulging who might have visited the model.

It observed that there were rumors she was currently romantically involved with a businessman, Alberto Elias, who heads up the Brazilian operations of the Italian food group Parmalat.

AFP