A five-year-old boy who was battling for life owing to a cyst that had developed in the crucial brain stem area got a new lease of life with the cyst being removed by a team of doctors at Vijayanagara Institute of Medical Sciences in Ballari on May 12 this year.
As per PubMed, a free database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, it is the second recorded surgery of the kind, after the one in Russia.
As per information provided by Vishwanath S., Professor and Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at VIMS, who led the team of doctors in the surgery, the balloon-like cyst had developed in the sensitive brain stem area and was disturbing the respiratory and heartbeat controlling activities of the brain.
