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Daniel Keane

Doctors perform life-saving brain surgery on baby in womb

Doctors in the US have performed life-saving brain surgery on a baby while still in its mother’s womb for the first time.

Surgeons in Boston, Massachusetts were able to successfully repair a major malformation in the brain of a foetus at 34 weeks using a complex technique called embolisation.

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