A three-month-old baby whose brain descended into his nose due to a rare condition has been saved by doctors in a world-first operation.
The baby was born with nasal myelomeningocele, a rare pathology that involves a defective closure of the base of the skull and can cause the descent of a small part of the brain inside the nose.
This can, in turn, obstruct the passage of air, making breathing difficult, which can be especially dangerous in newborns.
