PGIMER operates 16-month-old large brain tumour patient, creates history
Updated:5 years ago
Updated:5 years ago
Chandigarh, Jan 23 (ANI): Doctors at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) created history by successfully operating world’s youngest large brain tumour patient. The 16-month-old patient was referred to the PGIMER with loss of vision. MRI revealed a calcified brain tumour at the base of the skull. After a six-hour-long surgery, child was kept in ICU and recovered very well. Surgeon Dr Dhandapani SS said, “This is child is the youngest in the world in with we have done a complex endoscopic surgery through the nose for removal of such a tumour. In such a small child it has never been attempted in the world. Till date the youngest child to undergo such surgery was two-years-old.”
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