PGIMER doctors create history, perform brain surgery on world s youngest patient in Chandigarh
Endoscopic skull base surgeons of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh have removed a calcified brain tumour of a 1.4-year-old girl Amayra through her nose.
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The child is a native of Uttarakhand. (Photo for representation: Reuters)
A team of endoscopic skull base surgeons of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh has created history by removing a calcified brain tumour of a 1.4-year-old girl Amayra through her nose.
The doctors said Amayra has now become the world s youngest-ever child to have undergone paediatric neuroendoscopy. Earlier, the youngest child to have undergone endoscopic surgery through the nose for such tumours was a two-year-old, who was operated at Stanford, USA, in 2019.
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January 22, 2021 22:10 IST
Chandigarh institute’s skull-base surgeons have successfully removed a large brain tumour through the nose in a 16-month-old
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Representative Image: After a six hours long surgery, the child was kept in the ICU and recovered very well, according to the hospital. File Photo.
Chandigarh institute’s skull-base surgeons have successfully removed a large brain tumour through the nose in a 16-month-old
The Chandigarh-based premier tertiary care hospital, the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), has said that its team of endoscopic skull-base surgeons have successfully removed a large brain tumour (craniopharyngioma) through the nose on the youngest-ever patient for such a surgery in the world.
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Forty-one-year-old Shanti Devi, a native of Ballabhgarh in Haryana, had approached the doctors with complaints of severe headache and weakness on the right side of her body. She was unable to stand or walk without support.
Doctors at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here have created history by operating on the world s youngest large brain tumour patient that was removed through the nose, it was announced on Thursday.The .
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