An 11-year-old child recently underwent a rare surgery to remove a large tumour from the brain stem.
The surgery on the Bangladeshi boy from Dhaka lasted 18 hours and was performed in two stages by a team of 10 doctors at MGM Healthcare.
K. Sridhar, director and group head, Institute of Neurosciences and Spinal Disorders, led the surgery. The boy had been suffering from weakness in the limbs and developed severe headache. He was diagnosed as having a large tumour in the brain stem, a deep critical region.
