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'Youngest' baby gets brain glue op
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by Paul Conneally | December 29, 2008 at 10:11 am
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The use of superglue to seal wounds and stop bleeding was first pioneered on the battlefield and now we see the youngest baby to ever be treted using the technique to a benign brain tumour.
The operation was carried out at London's famous children's hospital Great Ormond Street.
A UK baby has become one of the youngest in the world to undergo an operation using glue to reduce the size of a brain tumour.
Madison Quartarone was just a week old when the procedure was carried out at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.
She was found to have a large, benign tumour, and glue was used to block the blood vessels supplying it, effectively starving it of nutrients.
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at 10:23 on December 29th, 2008
Normally we wouldn't think that glue would help get rid of tumours. Interesting.
at 10:28 on December 29th, 2008
Its used to seal the blood vessels in the operation