PGIMER operates 16-month-old large brain tumour patient, creates history

Doctors at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) created history by successfully operating world's youngest large brain tumour patient.

The 16-month-old patient was referred to the PGIMER with loss of vision.

MRI revealed a calcified brain tumour at the base of the skull.

After a six-hour-long surgery, child was kept in ICU and recovered very well.

Surgeon Dr Dhandapani SS said, "This is child is the youngest in the world in with we have done a complex endoscopic surgery through the nose for removal of such a tumour.

In such a small child it has never been attempted in the world.

Till date the youngest child to undergo such surgery was two-years-old."