Queensland surgeons remove large part of one-year-old’s skull to transform his life

Queensland surgeons remove large part of one-year-old's skull to transform his life

Source: ABC News

In a recent surgery at the Mater Children's Private Hospital at South Brisbane, they remodelled the skull of one-year-old Emrys Beckman after he was born with an abnormally shaped head.

Measure twice, cut once.
The mantra of respected Brisbane neurosurgeon Rob Campbell's late cabinet-maker father echoes inside his mind as he works.
"I haven't got the luxury of saying, 'That cut didn't work, let's do another cut,'" Dr Campbell said.
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