THE Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC) has performed a “minimally invasive” surgery on a 14-day-old baby to remove 95% of his pancreas — making the surgery (pancreatectomy) the first of its kind in the world for patients below 30 days old.
The surgery had to be performed to protect the patient from brain damage.
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