Department of Neuro Surgery in the Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, a premier medical institution administered by Centre, has done a very rare surgery on a one-year-old girl for brain tumour.
The child, daughter of a middle income family from Chennai was diagnosed as suffering from what is medically called gelastic seizures, a rare type of seizure that involves a sudden burst of energy, usually in the form of laughing or crying, Dr V R Roopesh Kumar, Head of the Department of Neuro Suregery in JIPMER who headed the team of doctors to perform the surgery last month said in a release.
The survery lasted for about four hours. The child was discharged after 10 days. She was currently free from any symptoms, the release said.
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