MELBOURNE: A Malaysian has led a team of four surgeons to remove a disfiguring growth from the face of a seven-year-old Filipino boy at the Monash Children's Hospital here.
Plastic surgeon Dr James Leong Chin Sek, who was born in Kota Baru, Kelantan, said Jhonny Lameon had a severe fronto-nasal encephalocele - a neural tube defect that results in membranous sacs expanding through openings in the skull.
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