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Duncan Murray

'Millimetre' mistake may have cost patient: Charlie Teo

Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo denies negligence in surgeries that left patients with brain injuries. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

High-profile neurosurgeon Charlie Teo says if he cut into the brain just a millimetre too far it could have been be enough for one of his patients never to wake up.

Dr Teo appeared before a Health Care Complaints Commission inquiry in Sydney on Tuesday to defend surgeries he performed to remove brain tumours in two women, from which they never recovered and died soon after.

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