Mumbai, Feb 16 (Ians) An infant boy, born with a rare skull defect, was successfully operated on – when five days old – to repair his skull and scalp at a Mumbai hospital, doctors said on Thursday.
The child was born Afreen Khan and Sanaulla Khan, hailing from Tamil Nadu, in a private nursing home in Andheri east last December, but their joy was short-lived as the infant was found to suffer from ‘aplasia cutis congenita’, where the baby’s scalp skin and skull bones were not fully developed in the central area of the head, leaving the underlying areas of the brain and its covering visible.
To correct this, he had to undergo a challenging scalp rotation and advancement flaps when he was barely 100-hours old.
The infant was brought to the Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital in early January and admitted to the neonatal ICU, under the care of Dr. Nilesh Satbhai,...
The child was born Afreen Khan and Sanaulla Khan, hailing from Tamil Nadu, in a private nursing home in Andheri east last December, but their joy was short-lived as the infant was found to suffer from ‘aplasia cutis congenita’, where the baby’s scalp skin and skull bones were not fully developed in the central area of the head, leaving the underlying areas of the brain and its covering visible.
To correct this, he had to undergo a challenging scalp rotation and advancement flaps when he was barely 100-hours old.
The infant was brought to the Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital in early January and admitted to the neonatal ICU, under the care of Dr. Nilesh Satbhai,...
- 2/16/2023
- by News Bureau
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